Test 5 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…

ain't it dead funny the Sultan and Subida argued over who was dead?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ai · What happens: argue, be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 argued	nsubj
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 funny	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 funny	nsubj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 funny	amod
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ai	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 funny	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Subida	cc
9	Subida	Subida	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sultan	conj
10	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	over	over	ADP	_	14 dead	case
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 dead	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 argued	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 argued	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	ai						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						dead property	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

nah, they were quite sensible about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sensible	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sensible	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sensible	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 sensible	advmod
6	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sensible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					about it; sensible property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they were well daft about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daft	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 daft	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daft	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 daft	advmod
6	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 daft	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					about it; daft, well property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they were well daft about it, arguing for ages over who had to be dead

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daft	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 daft	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daft	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 daft	advmod
6	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 daft	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arguing	punct
10	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 daft	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 ages	case
12	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 arguing	obl
13	over	over	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arguing	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 dead	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		about it; daft, well property	tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	they not said here	for ages		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive			dead property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, they were so daft, the Sultan even offered gold to the one who was right

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daft	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 daft	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daft	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 daft	advmod
6	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 offered	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 offered	nsubj
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 offered	advmod
11	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 daft	conj
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 one	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 right	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			daft property	tree rules
2	offer	past	the Sultan	gold	the one		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to one=Goal
3	is	past	the one			right property	tree rules

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