Test 3 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…

wait, why did the wife have to wear sackcloth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wife · What happens: wait, have, wear · To what, where: sackcloth

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 have	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wear	mark
9	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	sackcloth	sackcloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wear	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past · do-support	the wife		tree rules
3	wear	to-infinitive	the wife not said here	sackcloth	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sackcloth=Source

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

cos it looked proper sad, like she was in mourning, and the porter would believe her

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mourning	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 mourning	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mourning	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mourning	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 mourning	case
11	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 believe	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 believe	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 porter	det
15	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 believe	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 believe	aux
17	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cos	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	look	past	it		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	she		like mourning	tree rules
4	believe	would	the porter	her = she		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos it looked proper sad, like she was in mourning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mourning	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 mourning	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mourning	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mourning	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 mourning	case
11	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	look	past	it	sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	she	like mourning	tree rules

Option 3

cos it was the only cloth in the house, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cloth	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cloth	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here			the house and innit			tree rules
2	is a	past	it	the only cloth					tree rules

Option 4

cos it made her look proper grieving and dead sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	conj
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	grieving	grieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 proper	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dead	cc
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proper	conj
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	make	past	it	her = she		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product
3	look	infinitive	you not said here		proper property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	grieve	gerund	you not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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