Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali…

Ngl, why did Ali even trust that dude with the vase?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trust · What happens: dude

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
5	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 trust	advmod
7	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 dude	nsubj
9	dude	dude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trust	acl:relcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 vase	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vase	det
12	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dude	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dude	present	trust					with the vase	tree rules

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

Cause he owed him money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owed	nsubj
3	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owed	iobj
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past	Cause	money	him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal money=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was like his brother, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brother	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brother	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 brother	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 honestly	punct
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 brother	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					like his brother; honestly property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he had the key to his shop, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 key	det
5	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 shop	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shop	nmod:poss
8	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 key	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 key	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cause	the key and fr				to Cause's shop	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient

Option 4

Idk, just because

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Idk	Idk	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Idk	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 because	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	1 Idk	nmod

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

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