Test 4 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…
bruv, what did Subida do when the wife turned up?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv, wife · What happens: do, turn up
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | Subida | Subida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 turned | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | bruv | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | turn up | past | the wife | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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
sent her home with a bag of silver and food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 home | nmod:poss |
| 3 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sent | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 bag | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sent | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 silver | case |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bag | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 food | cc |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bag | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | her home | with a bag of silver and food | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
gave her a purse with two hundred gold pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 gave | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 purse | det |
| 4 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gave | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | compound |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a purse | her = she | with hundred gold pieces | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient purse=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
gave her a purse with two hundred gold pieces and told her to leave quickly
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 gave | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 purse | det |
| 4 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gave | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hundred | compound |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | compound |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 gave | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 gave | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a purse | her = she | with hundred gold pieces | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient purse=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
gave her a purse with a hundred gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 gave | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 purse | det |
| 4 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 gave | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 coins | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hundred | det |
| 7 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 coins | nummod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coins | compound |
| 9 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a purse | her = she | with hundred gold coins | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient purse=Theme |
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