Test 7 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…
did the chamberlain see Abu Nowas lying there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chamberlain, Abu · What happens: see, lie · To what, where: Abu
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chamberlain | det |
| 3 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Abu | flat |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 see | xcomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lying | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | the chamberlain | Abu | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | Abu not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 right answer
yeah, he saw him stiff as anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 anything | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 stiff | fixed |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 saw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | him = he | stiff anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 2
nah, he didn't look under the sheet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 look | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 look | advmod |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 sheet | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sheet | det |
| 9 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | he | under the sheet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under sheet=Theme |
Option 3
nah, he didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, he did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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