Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…

Was the Indian keen to sell or did he want to keep it, like what's the deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, sell, want, keep · To what, where: Indian keen, keen

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 keen	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 keen	det
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keen	amod
4	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keen	acl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sell	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 keep	mark
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 want	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 keep	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 deal	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	19 deal	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 deal	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 deal	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 deal	det
19	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keep	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Indian keen		tree rules
2	sell	to-infinitive				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	want	past · do-support	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	keen		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	is	present			like the deal	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd sell it on one condition

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	3 sell	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sell	aux
3	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sell	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 condition	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 condition	nummod
7	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	would	He	it		one condition			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme on condition=Asset

Option 2

He'd keep it, no deal, mate

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	3 keep	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 deal	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 deal	det
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	He	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, for cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cash	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 cash	case
4	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, he wouldn't sell it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sell	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sell	advmod
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell	would	he	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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