Test 11 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…

why did the wife in the honey tale turn her nose up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: turn up · To what, where: nose

This is test 11 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 turn	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 tale	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tale	det
7	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tale	compound
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nose	nmod:poss
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 turn	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past · do-support	the wife in the honey tale	wife's nose					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme

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 honey had dead bees in it, gross, and her husband had carried it all the way from the forest

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 honey	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bees	amod
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gross	punct
9	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carried	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	aux
15	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 way	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl:unmarked
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 forest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the honey	dead bees		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Patient
2	carry	past · perfect · passive		her husband		the forest		all way obl:unmarked	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Value

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the honey had dead bees in it, gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 honey	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bees	amod
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gross	punct
9	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the honey	dead bees		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Patient

Option 3

the honey was too runny, not nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 honey	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runny	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 runny	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 runny	advmod
5	runny	runny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nice	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 nice	advmod
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 runny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the honey					runny property	tree rules
2	not be		the honey not said here						tree rules

Option 4

the honey was stale and had bits of wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 honey	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stale	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stale	cop
4	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stale	conj
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wax	case
9	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the honey					stale property	tree rules
2	have	past	the honey not said here	bits of wax					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient

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