Test 9 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Almas and the Simurgh, part 7: Almas…

Mad, so what was the riddle he wanted to crack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, riddle · What happens: be, want, crack · To what, where: riddle

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 riddle	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 riddle	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 riddle	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 riddle	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 riddle	det
7	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mad	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 riddle	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 crack	mark
11	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the riddle	tree rules
2	want	past	he	the riddle not said here	tree rules
3	crack not said to happen	to-infinitive	the riddle not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

What the rose did to the cypress, that was the question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rose	det
3	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cypress	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cypress	det
7	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 question	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 question	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 question	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 question	det
12	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cypress	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the rose					to the cypress and the question	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is a	past	that	the question					tree rules

Option 2

The cypress, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The rose, that's it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rose	det
2	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 it	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 it	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the rose	rose					tree rules

Option 4

Why the rose wilted, that was the riddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wilted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rose	det
3	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wilted	nsubj
4	wilted	wilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 riddle	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 riddle	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 riddle	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 riddle	det
9	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wilted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wilt	participle	the rose						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	that	the riddle					tree rules

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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