Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is re…

Ngl, what did Ali Cogia threaten to do after losing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ali · What happens: threaten, do, lose

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
6	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ali	flat
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 threaten	xcomp
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 losing	mark
11	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 do	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	Ali	Ngl vocative	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ali not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	gerund	Ali not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

appeal directly to the Caliph and ask for the merchant's punishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	appeal	appeal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	1 appeal	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Caliph	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Caliph	det
5	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 appeal	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ask	cc
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 appeal	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 punishment	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 merchant	det
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 punishment	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 merchant	case
12	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	appeal	imperative	you not said here	to the Caliph; directly property	vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to caliph=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here	for the merchant's punishment	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	punish		the merchant		nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

take the whole affair to the Caliph's own court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 affair	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 affair	amod
4	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	10 court	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caliph	det
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 court	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Caliph	case
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 court	amod
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the whole affair		the Caliph's own court			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent affair=Theme to court=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

appeal to the Caliph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	appeal	appeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Caliph	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 appeal	nmod

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

Option 4

demand a new trial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	demand	demand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trial	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trial	amod
4	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 demand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	imperative	you not said here	a new trial					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trial=Precondition

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