Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

yo did the princess actually cheat with the cotton or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: yo, princess · What happens: do, cheat · To what, where: princess

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 230 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, part 70: Parizade wins the bird and the Golden Water» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 cheat	advmod
6	cheat	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 princess	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 cotton	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cotton	det
9	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheat	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cheat	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the princess					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	cheat	present	the princess not said here					with the cotton; actually property	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, it was fair, she just blocked the noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fair	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fair	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	cop
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blocked	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blocked	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 blocked	advmod
9	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fair	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 noise	det
11	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						fair property	tree rules
2	block	past	she	the noise					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer noise=Theme

Option 2

nah, she just gave up early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	she					early property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, the bird let her win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	the bird	her = she					tree rules
2	win	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, she cheated big time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cheated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cheated	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cheated	nsubj
4	cheated	cheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past	she				time		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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