Test 8 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

What did Wali Dâd want the merchant to do, like, the next day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wali, you · What happens: want, like · To what, where: merchant

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 want	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
4	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wali	flat
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 like	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merchant	det
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 like	aux
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 like	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Wali	the merchant					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme merchant=Attribute
2	like	imperative · do-support	you not said here				day		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

keep them waiting one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keep	obj
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 keep	xcomp
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	wait	gerund	them = they not said here				day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

keep them waiting one day, then send the gifts back to the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keep	obj
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 keep	xcomp
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 send	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 send	advmod
8	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 keep	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gifts	det
10	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 send	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	8 send	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 king	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	them = they			tree rules
2	wait	gerund	them = they not said here			day	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	send back	infinitive	you not said here	the gifts	the king	then	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to king=Destination

Option 3

keep them waiting one whole day before they go on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keep	obj
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 keep	xcomp
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	advcl
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	them = they		tree rules
2	wait	gerund	them = they not said here		day	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go on	present	they			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

keep them moving one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 keep	obj
3	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 keep	xcomp
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moving	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	move	gerund	them = they not said here				day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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