Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3…

Is Dil-aram actually trying to kill the princess, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dil aram · What happens: be, try, kill · To what, where: Dil aram, princess

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 aram	cop
2	Dil	Dil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 aram	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 aram	punct
4	aram	aram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 trying	advmod
6	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 aram	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 princess	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 aram	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Dil aram		tree rules
2	try	gerund	Dil aram not said here		actually property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dil aram not said here	the princess and bro		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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

No, she wants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

She offered poison, he refused it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offered	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 refused	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 refused	nsubj
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	She	poison					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent poison=Theme
2	refuse	past	he	poison					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yes, she tried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	she						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She offered poison, but he said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offered	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 offered	parataxis
8	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	She	poison					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent poison=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

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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