Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

Yo, could the peri-king's girl marry anyone she liked?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: marry, like · To what, where: anyone

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	10 marry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
5	peri	peri	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 peri	punct
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 girl	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	nsubj
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 marry	obj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 liked	nsubj
13	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 anyone	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 marry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	could	the peri king's girl	anyone					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
2	like	past	girl						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Yes, sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 sure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, her mum wouldn't let her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	her mum	her = she					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Yes, but her dad said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dad	nmod:poss
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	her dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, her mum wouldn't let her, not even for the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prince	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 prince	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	14 prince	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 prince	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	her mum	her = she					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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