Test 10 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…

what's the honey tale about then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: honey tale · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 707 «Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wife's death and tricks the Sultan out of gold» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
4	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tale	compound
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 then	case
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tale	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the honey tale						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

a husband who gets honey for his poorly wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 husband	acl:relcl
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	9 wife	advmod
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a husband	honey				for husband's wife	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent honey=Theme for wife=Beneficiary

Option 2

a husband who goes into the forest for honey and his wife who turns it down because of the bees

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 husband	acl:relcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 honey	case
9	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wife	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 honey	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 turns	nsubj
14	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wife	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turns	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	4 goes	compound:prt
17	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	20 bees	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 because	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bees	det
20	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	present	a husband			the forest		for honey and husband's wife; because the bees	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	turn	present	husband's wife	forest					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a sick wife who wants honey with dead bees in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wife	det
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wants	nsubj
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wife	acl:relcl
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bees	case
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bees	amod
9	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wants	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	5 wants	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in	present	a sick wife	honey				with dead bees	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot honey=Theme

Option 4

a wife who won't eat the honey they fetched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 eat	nsubj
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wife	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 honey	det
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fetched	nsubj
10	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 honey	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	future	a wife	the honey					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient
2	fetch	past	they	the honey not said here					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme

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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