Test 12 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…

how many camels did the prince bring with him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: many camels · What happens: bring

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 camels	amod
3	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bring	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bring	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bring	nsubj
7	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bring	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · do-support	many camels					with prince	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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

A long string of two-humped camels laden with gold and silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 string	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 string	amod
3	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laden	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 camels	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 camels	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 two	punct
7	humped	hump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 camels	amod
8	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 string	nmod
9	laden	laden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laden	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 silk	cc
13	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hump	participle							tree rules
2	laden	present	a long string of two humped camels					with gold and silk	tree rules

Option 2

Two camels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 camels	nummod
2	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A string of two-humped camels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 string	det
2	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 camels	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 camels	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 two	punct
6	humped	hump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 camels	amod
7	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 string	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hump	participle							tree rules

Option 4

A caravan of silver-laden horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 caravan	det
2	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 horses	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laden	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 silver	punct
6	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 horses	amod
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 caravan	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lade	participle							tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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