Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali…

Wait, how long was Ali gone, like a week?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Ali · What happens: wait, be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 gone	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
6	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 week	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 week	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Ali				week	gone, long property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, seven whole years, lowkey wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wild	amod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, seven whole years, lowkey wild, he didn't even come back for the olives

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 wild	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wild	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wild	amod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 come	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wild	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 olives	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 olives	det
18	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	past · do-support	he					for the olives	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, seven whole years, lowkey wild, he went to Persia and India and Cairo

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 wild	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wild	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wild	amod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wild	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Persia	case
13	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 India	cc
15	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Persia	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Cairo	cc
17	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Persia	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			Persia and India and Cairo			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to persia=Initial_Location

Option 4

Nah, five whole years, lowkey wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 years	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 years	punct
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wild	amod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	conj

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

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