Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

Tell me straight, what did the peri-king want to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: tell, want, do · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
8	peri	peri	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 king	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 peri	punct
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 want	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	me	straight property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	want	past · do-support				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Burn him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Bind him in the chains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bind	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 chains	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chains	det
5	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	imperative	you not said here		him = he			in the chains	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination in chain=Theme

Option 3

Burn him slowly in the fire for seven days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burn	obj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Burn	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the fire	day	slowly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Burn him in the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Burn	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the fire			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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