Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali…

Why did the Caliph not want the magician fixed?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Caliph, magician · What happens: not want, fix · To what, where: magician

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magician	det
8	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
9	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 want	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	the Caliph	the magician					tree rules
2	fix not said to happen	participle	the magician not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 women like her never stop being evil, so the magic was kept on her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	6 stop	mark
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 women	nmod
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kept	advcl
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 evil	cop
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stop	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 kept	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 magic	det
12	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kept	aux:pass
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not stop	present	women like her			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	women like her not said here		evil property	tree rules
3	keep	past · passive		the magic		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme her=Attribute

Option 2

Because she would never change her ways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 change	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 change	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 change	advmod
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ways	nmod:poss
7	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	would	she	her ways					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cause women like her never stop being evil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	6 stop	mark
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 women	nmod
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 evil	advcl
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 evil	cop
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	present	women like her						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund						evil property	tree rules

Option 4

Cause women like her never stop being evil and would just do it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	6 stop	mark
2	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 women	nmod
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 evil	advcl
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 evil	cop
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 do	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 evil	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	present	women like her				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund				evil property	tree rules
3	do	would		it	again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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