Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali…

Did Sidi-Nouman's wife get turned back into a human?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: turn back · To what, where: wife

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux
2	Sidi	Sidi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nouman	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Sidi	punct
4	Nouman	Nouman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Nouman	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux:pass
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 turned	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 human	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 human	det
12	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past · passive · do-support		Sidi Nouman's wife				into a human	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, the Caliph reversed everything the magician did to her and sent her home

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 reversed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reversed	nsubj
5	reversed	reverse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 reversed	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magician	det
8	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reversed	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sent	cc
13	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reversed	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 home	nmod:poss
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reverse	past	the Caliph	everything		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	do	past	the magician		Caliph	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	send	past	the Caliph not said here	Caliph's home		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 2

Yep, the Caliph said she could be human again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 human	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 human	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 human	cop
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 human	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Caliph						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	could	Caliph				again	human property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, the Caliph said her punishment was enough and stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 punishment	nmod:poss
7	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enough	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 enough	cop
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stopped	cc
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Caliph		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Caliph's punishment	enough property	tree rules
3	stop	past	the Caliph not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	punish		Caliph		nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the Caliph said let the punishment be enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 punishment	det
8	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
10	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 be	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Caliph		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		the punishment	tree rules
3	be	infinitive	the punishment not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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