Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is re…

Lowkey sus, but who did the Cadi end up believing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cadi, Lowkey sus · What happens: end up, believe

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sus	compound
2	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 believing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 did	cc
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 believing	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cadi	det
8	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 end	nsubj
9	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 end	compound:prt
11	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 believing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	present	the Cadi						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	believe	past · do-support	Lowkey sus						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

the merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the merchant, cause he swore on oath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swore	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cause	punct
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 merchant	conj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swore	nsubj
6	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 oath	case
8	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	the merchant and cause			oath			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the merchant, he had the nicer robe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robe	det
7	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 robe	amod
8	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the merchant	the nicer robe					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient

Option 4

Ali, because his tale was longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ali	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 tale	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tale	nmod:poss
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ali	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 longer	cop
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Ali	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						long property	tree rules
2	tell		Ali						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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