Test 3 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the…

wait, the negro really wanted to eat him, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, negro, cap · What happens: wait, want, eat · To what, where: cap, negro

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1205 «Persian Tales, Prince Almas, part 6: the prince kills the negro guards and reaches the Simurgh's garden» 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	_	6 wanted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 negro	det
4	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	the negro	no cap	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cap not said here	negro	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

he wanted 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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	his horse					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme

Option 2

nah, he wanted gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 3

he wanted his shoes

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoes	nmod:poss
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	his shoes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot shoe=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, man-meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 meat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 meat	punct
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meat	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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