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

So what did the bird say about the Caucasus jins?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 jins	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jins	det
9	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 jins	compound
10	jins	jin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the bird					about the Caucasus jins	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

They'd definitely kill him, so don't go, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	4 kill	advmod
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would	They	him = he				definitely property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not go	infinitive · do-support						bro vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They'd trick him, so be careful, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trick	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trick	aux
3	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trick	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 careful	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 careful	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 careful	cop
8	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trick	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 careful	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	would	They	him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	is	infinitive						mate vocative; careful property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They're harmless, so go ahead and visit them, mate, they'd only greet him kindly

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 harmless	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 harmless	cop
3	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 harmless	parataxis
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 visit	cc
9	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 go	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 visit	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 harmless	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 greet	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 greet	nsubj
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 greet	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 greet	advmod
17	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 harmless	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 greet	obj
19	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	17 greet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	They			harmless property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive				ahead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	visit	infinitive		them = they			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4	greet speech: greet	would	they		him = he	kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

They'd definitely kill him on sight, so don't even think about going, bro

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	4 kill	advmod
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 sight	case
7	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 think	advmod
10	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 think	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 think	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 think	advmod
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kill	conj
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	15 going	mark
15	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 think	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bro	punct
17	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	would	They	him = he	sight	definitely property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not think speech: other	infinitive · do-support	They not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	gerund				bro vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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