Test 8 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…
who's the brave last brother who goes alone?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brave last brother · What happens: be, go · To what, where: brave last brother
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brother | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 goes | nsubj |
| 8 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brother | acl:relcl |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 goes | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the brave last brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | present | the brave last brother | alone property | 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
The seventh son, bold Tahmasp-ruh-bakhsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tahmasp | punct |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Tahmasp | amod |
| 6 | Tahmasp | Tahmasp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ruh | punct |
| 8 | ruh | ruh | INTJ | _ | 10 bakhsh | discourse |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ruh | punct |
| 10 | bakhsh | bakhsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Tahmasp | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The youngest son, Tahmasp, the seventh brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tahmasp | punct |
| 5 | Tahmasp | Tahmasp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 8 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tahmasp | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Almas-ruh-bakhsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Almas | alma | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ruh | punct |
| 3 | ruh | ruh | INTJ | _ | 1 Almas | discourse |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ruh | punct |
| 5 | bakhsh | bakhsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Almas | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Almas-bakhsh-shah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Almas | alma | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Almas | punct |
| 3 | bakhsh | bakhsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shah | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 bakhsh | punct |
| 5 | shah | shah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Almas | conj |
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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