Test 6 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Almas and the Simurgh, part 7: Almas…

Sus stuff: how many seas did they have to cross?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many seas, Sus stuff · What happens: have, cross · To what, where: Sus stuff

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stuff	amod
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seas	amod
6	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stuff	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cross	mark
11	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stuff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	many seas	Sus stuff not said here					tree rules
2	cross	to-infinitive	Sus stuff not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Five, so the bird had to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 had	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rest	mark
8	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the bird	Five					tree rules
2	rest	to-infinitive	Five not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seven, so the prince had to feed the bird each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 feed	mark
8	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feed	obj
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Seven						tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive	Seven not said here		the bird		time		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient

Option 3

Nine, so he had to pay each time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Nine	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pay	mark
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he						tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	he not said here				time		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Seven, and the bird had to stop and rest on every single sea, proper tiring

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Seven	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rest	cc
10	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stop	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 sea	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 sea	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sea	amod
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tiring	punct
16	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tiring	amod
17	tiring	tiring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seven	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	have	past	the bird		tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	the bird not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	rest	infinitive	the bird not said here	every single sea	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Location

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