Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3…

So the old couple are cool, yeah, what did the prince give them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old couple, prince · What happens: be, give · To what, where: them

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 cool	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 couple	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 couple	amod
4	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cool	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cool	cop
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cool	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cool	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 give	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cool	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the old couple					cool property	tree rules
2	give	past · do-support	the prince		them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient what=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 · ✓ the right answer

He gave them his stuff and his horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stuff	nmod:poss
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horse	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuff	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	his stuff and his horse	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient stuff=Theme

Option 2

He gave them his stuff, and he also promised to return and pay them with his horse next year

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stuff	nmod:poss
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promised	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 promised	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 promised	nsubj
9	also	also	ADV	_	10 promised	advmod
10	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 return	mark
12	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promised	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pay	cc
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 return	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pay	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 horse	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 horse	nmod:poss
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pay	obl
19	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 year	amod
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	his stuff	them = they	year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient stuff=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past	he					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pay	infinitive	he not said here	them = they			with his horse	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset

Option 3

He gave them all his belongings, his horse, his sword and a bag of gold coins

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 belongings	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 belongings	nmod:poss
6	belongings	belonging	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 horse	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horse	nmod:poss
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 belongings	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sword	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sword	nmod:poss
12	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bag	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bag	det
15	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sword	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 coins	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coins	compound
18	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bag	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	his belongings and his horse	them = they			horse's sword and a bag of gold coins obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient belonging=Theme

Option 4

He gave them his clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 clothes	nmod:poss
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	his clothes	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clothes=Theme

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