Test 11 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Almas and the Simurgh, part 7: Almas…

What did he flash at the king to get in?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: flash, get in

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1206 «Persian Tales, Prince Almas and the Simurgh, part 7: Almas slays the dragon, the Simurgh spares him and the prince wins the king's trust» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 flash	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flash	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flash	nsubj
4	flash	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flash	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flash	advcl
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 flash	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	past · do-support	he					at the king	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	get in	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 diamond, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 diamond	det
2	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 diamond	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 diamond	conj

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

Option 2

The pearl his mum gave, the ten misqals one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pearl	det
2	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 misqals	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 misqals	det
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 misqals	nummod
9	misqals	misqal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 misqals	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the pearl	the ten misqals					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misqal=Theme

Option 3

That ruby the bird gave him, the twenty misqals one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ruby	det
2	ruby	ruby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 misqals	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 misqals	det
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 misqals	nummod
10	misqals	misqal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	obj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 misqals	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	that ruby	the twenty misqals	bird				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient misqal=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That diamond the bird gave him, the thirty misqals one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 diamond	nsubj
2	diamond	diamond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 diamond	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 misqals	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 misqals	det
9	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 misqals	nummod
10	misqals	misqal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 diamond	obl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 diamond	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diamond	present	That	the thirty misqals					tree rules
2	give	past	the bird		him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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