Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali…

What did the merchant buy to replace the olives?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: buy, replace · To what, where: olives

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 219 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali hides gold in a vase of olives, and his friend steals it» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 buy	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buy	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	nsubj
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 replace	mark
7	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 buy	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 olives	det
9	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 replace	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 buy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · do-support	the merchant						tree rules
2	replace	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here	the olives					vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme olive=Co-Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

New olives, super sneaky move, ngl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 olives	amod
2	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 move	punct
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 sneaky	advmod
5	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 move	amod
6	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 olives	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ngl	punct
8	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Fresh olives, a sneaky trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 olives	amod
2	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trick	det
5	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trick	amod
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 olives	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Fresh new olives, like a total sneaky move to hide the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 olives	amod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 olives	amod
3	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 move	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 move	det
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 move	amod
8	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 move	amod
9	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 olives	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hide	mark
11	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 move	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive		the gold					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fresh new olives, like a total sneaky move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 olives	amod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 olives	amod
3	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 move	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 move	det
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 move	amod
8	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 move	amod
9	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 olives	acl:relcl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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