Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…

Who was the big boss in the palace, the Caliph or the grand-vizir?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big boss, palace

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 boss	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boss	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boss	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boss	amod
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boss	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Caliph	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 palace	appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 vizir	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vizir	det
14	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vizir	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 grand	punct
16	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 palace	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the big boss		the palace or the grand vizir			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 grand-vizir, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vizir	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vizir	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grand	punct
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vizir	conj

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

Option 2

The Cadi, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cadi	det
2	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cadi	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the Cadi						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The vizier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Caliph, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Caliph	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 Caliph	advmod

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

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