Test 4 · ★★ · Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, a…

«genies are from Disney lol» What is the longer story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: genies, Disney · What happens: be · To what, where: Disney, longer story

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 101 «Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: one story in many books, and the legends of the ring and the jinn» of the religion ethics 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Disney	punct
2	genies	genie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Disney	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Disney	cop
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Disney	case
5	Disney	Disney	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 story	nsubj
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	12 story	discourse
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 lol	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 story	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 story	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
11	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 story	amod
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	genies			Disney			tree rules
2	is a	present	Disney	the longer story					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 · ← Mova's choice

Disney made them up for Aladdin and nobody had heard of them before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disney	Disney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Aladdin	case
6	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 heard	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 made	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	obl
13	before	before	ADV	_	10 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	Disney	them = they				for Aladdin	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Pivot
2	hear	past · perfect	nobody					of them = they; before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They come from the jinn of Arabic belief and old tales like the Thousand and One Nights

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 jinn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jinn	det
5	jinn	jinn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 belief	case
7	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 belief	compound
8	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jinn	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tales	cc
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tales	amod
11	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jinn	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 Thousand	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Thousand	det
14	Thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 tales	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Nights	cc
16	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 Nights	nummod
17	Nights	Night	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 tales	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They			the jinn of Arabic belief and old tales like the Thousand and One Nights			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from jinn=Initial_Location

Option 3

They come from Ancient Egypt, where every pharaoh kept one in a jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 Egypt	case
4	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Egypt	amod
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 kept	advmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 pharaoh	det
9	pharaoh	pharaoh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 come	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 kept	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 jar	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 jar	det
14	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They			Ancient Egypt			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from egypt=Initial_Location
2	keep	past	every pharaoh	one		a jar			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme in jar=Location

Option 4

They come from Kipling, who was the first to write about them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Kipling	case
4	Kipling	Kipling	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 first	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 first	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 first	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 first	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 Kipling	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 write	mark
11	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 first	acl
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	They	Kipling		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from kipling=Initial_Location
2	is	past	Kipling		first property	tree rules
3	write	to-infinitive			about them = they	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic

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