Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3…

Okay so why did he pretend to be a madman, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: pretend, be, innit · To what, where: madman

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1202 «Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3: the prince enters the garden and is taken for a madman» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	6 pretend	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 pretend	advmod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pretend	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretend	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pretend	nsubj
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 madman	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 madman	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 madman	det
10	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretend	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pretend	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pretend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pretend	past · do-support	he		tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	he not said here	a madman	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	he not said here		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

To get close to her to learn more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 close	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 learn	mark
7	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	advcl
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive						close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	learn	to-infinitive		more					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic

Option 2

Cause he wants the princess to fall in love with him and marry him in the end

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fall	mark
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 love	case
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fall	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 marry	cc
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fall	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 marry	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Cause	the princess				tree rules
2	fall not said to happen	to-infinitive	the princess not said here		love		with Cause	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
3	marry	infinitive	the princess not said here	Cause		in the end		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To get close to the princess and find the answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 get	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 close	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 find	cc
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 answer	det
10	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive						close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	find	infinitive		the answer					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic

Option 4

Because the guards would never let a prince come inside the garden without a disguise at all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 let	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 disguise	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 disguise	det
15	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	the guards	a prince					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
2	come	present				the garden		without a disguise; at all	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside garden=Location

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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