Test 13 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…
wait, did the wise men say to let him go?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wise men, him · What happens: wait, say, let, go · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the wise men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | him = he | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | him = he not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Yeah, with some hired soldiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 soldiers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 soldiers | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 soldiers | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 soldiers | det |
| 5 | hired | hire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 soldiers | amod |
| 6 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, with some trusted mates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 mates | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mates | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mates | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 mates | det |
| 5 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 mates | amod |
| 6 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
No, he should stay home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | should | he | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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