Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…

Ngl, why did the fake lady keep her veil on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fake lady · What happens: keep on · To what, where: veil

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1433 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: the palace flies home, and the magician's brother, disguised as Fatima, asks for a roc's egg» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 keep	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 veil	nmod:poss
10	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	8 keep	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep on	past · do-support	the fake lady	lady's veil				Ngl vocative	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=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

because she wanted her face hidden from the Princess and the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 face	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Princess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hidden	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 court	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 court	det
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	her face and the court					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot face=Theme
2	hide	participle		her face and the court not said here				from the Princess	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from princess=Beneficiary

Option 2

so nobody would spot her and know she was the wrong woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 spot	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 spot	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spot	aux
4	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spot	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 know	cc
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spot	conj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 woman	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 woman	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	spot	would	nobody		her = she	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination
2	know	present	nobody not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	she	the wrong woman		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

so nobody would spot her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 spot	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 spot	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spot	aux
4	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	would	nobody		her = she				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination

Option 4

for the Sultan's orders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	5 orders	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 orders	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Sultan	case
5	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order		the Sultan						nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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