Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad, part 1: Ali…

Where did Ali go after Mecca, like the next stop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ali · What happens: go

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 Mecca	case
6	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 stop	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stop	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stop	amod
11	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Ali				after Mecca	like the next stop	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Cairo, cause the merchants said it was better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cairo	punct
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchants	det
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 better	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 better	cop
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Cairo		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the merchants		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past		good property	tree rules

Option 2

Cairo, cause the merchants said it was way better and had more markets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cairo	punct
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchants	det
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 way	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 way	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 markets	amod
14	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cause	present	Cairo		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the merchants		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	it	way	tree rules
4	have	past	the merchants not said here	more markets	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent market=Patient

Option 3

Cairo, cause the merchants said it was better for trade and gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Cairo	punct
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchants	det
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 better	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 better	cop
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 said	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 trade	case
11	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 better	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gold	cc
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trade	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Cairo		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the merchants		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past		for trade and gold; good property	tree rules

Option 4

Damascus, cause the merchants said it was richer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cause	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Damascus	punct
3	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchants	det
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cause	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 richer	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 richer	cop
9	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Damascus		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the merchants		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it	rich property	tree rules

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