Test 9 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…

so Abu Nowas got the gold in the end, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Abu · What happens: get · To what, where: gold, end

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Abu	flat
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Abu	the gold			in the end		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus

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

yeah, he nicked it right under the Sultan's nose and then ran home to his wife with the purse

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	11 nose	advmod
7	under	under	ADP	_	11 nose	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 nose	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Sultan	case
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ran	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 ran	advmod
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nicked	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wife	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 purse	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 purse	det
21	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wife	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	it		the Sultan's nose			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	run	past	he not said here				then	to his wife with the purse result; home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wife=Result

Option 2

yeah, he nicked it right under the Sultan's nose, the Sultana had told everyone to watch him

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	11 nose	advmod
7	under	under	ADP	_	11 nose	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 nose	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Sultan	case
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sultana	det
14	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 nicked	conj
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 told	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 watch	mark
19	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	nick	past	he	it		the Sultan's nose	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Sultana		everyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
3	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Sultana not said here	him = he			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the Sultan kept it and sent him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sent	cc
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 sent	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Sultan	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	send off	past	the Sultan not said here	Sultan					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he nicked it right under the Sultan's nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nicked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nicked	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	11 nose	advmod
7	under	under	ADP	_	11 nose	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 nose	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Sultan	case
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	he	it		the Sultan's nose			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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