Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

Why were the peris blind, like, actually?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: peris · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 blind	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peris	det
4	peris	peris	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blind	nsubj
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 blind	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 blind	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 blind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the peris					actually, blind property	tree rules

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

Their own king blinded them in anger for stealing the rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 king	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blinded	nsubj
4	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blinded	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 anger	case
7	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blinded	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 stealing	mark
9	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blinded	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rose	det
11	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past	Their own king	them = they		anger			tree rules
2	steal	gerund	Their own king not said here	the rose					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme

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

Their king blinded them in anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 king	nmod:poss
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blinded	nsubj
3	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blinded	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 anger	case
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blinded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past	Their king	them = they		anger			tree rules

Option 3

Their king blinded them in anger after the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 king	nmod:poss
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blinded	nsubj
3	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blinded	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 anger	case
6	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blinded	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blinded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past	Their king	them = they		anger	after the feast		tree rules

Option 4

The sea blinded them one night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blinded	nsubj
3	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blinded	obj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 night	nummod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blinded	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past	the sea	them = they			night		tree rules

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