Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is re…

Did Ali Cogia bring any witnesses to the Cadi?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ali · What happens: bring · To what, where: witnesses, Cadi

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 220 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is replayed by children, and a clever boy spots the trick» 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	4 bring	aux
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bring	nsubj
3	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ali	flat
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 witnesses	det
6	witnesses	witness	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Cadi	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cadi	det
9	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · do-support	Ali	any witnesses	the Cadi				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent witness=Theme to cadi=Destination

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

nope, the market was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 empty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 market	det
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 empty	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he trusted his mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 trusted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trusted	nsubj
4	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mate	nmod:poss
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trusted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	past	he	his mate					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme

Option 3

nope, he trusted his mate, a merchant of good name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 trusted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trusted	nsubj
4	trusted	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mate	nmod:poss
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trusted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 merchant	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trusted	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 name	case
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 name	amod
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 merchant	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	past	he	his mate					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nope, he didn't think he needed anyone since the man was his friend

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needed	nsubj
8	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	ccomp
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 needed	obj
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 friend	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 friend	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 friend	cop
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friend	nmod:poss
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	he		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	need	past	he	anyone	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anyone=Theme
3	is a	past	the man	man's friend	tree rules

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