Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali…

So the olives were actually rotten?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: olives · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 rotten	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 olives	det
3	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rotten	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rotten	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 rotten	advmod
6	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 rotten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the olives					actually, rotten 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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, all rotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rotten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rotten	det
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Top ones were, the bottom had gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Top ones					have property	tree rules

Option 3

Top ones were rotten, bottom gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rotten	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rotten	cop
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gold	punct
6	bottom	bottom	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gold	amod
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rotten	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Top ones					rotten property	tree rules

Option 4

Some were, the bottom had gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 had	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Some					have property	tree rules

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