Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…

Did the king want the horse or did he reckon it was rubbish?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: king, horse · What happens: want, reckon, be · To what, where: horse, rubbish

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 221 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child judges a thief, then a magic horse appears» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 king	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 reckon	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reckon	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reckon	nsubj
10	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rubbish	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rubbish	cop
13	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reckon	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	the king	the horse	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme
2	reckon	past · do-support	king		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	horse	rubbish	tree rules

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

Nah, rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 rubbish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

He wanted it, mad keen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keen	punct
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	it				mad keen obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3

He didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	He						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He reckoned it was junk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 junk	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 junk	cop
5	junk	junk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	junk					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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