Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

yo, did you see that Houssain dude get tricked by the crier, proper embarrassing innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, crier · What happens: see, trick · To what, where: Houssain dude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1493 «Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 80: Houssain buys a magic tapestry in Bisnagar» 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	_	5 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 tricked	mark
7	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dude	compound
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricked	nsubj:pass
9	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tricked	aux:pass
10	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 see	ccomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 crier	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crier	det
13	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 innit	amod
16	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 innit	amod
17	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crier	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	trick	present · passive	the crier and proper embarrassing innit	Houssain dude					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

He paid forty purses for a fake carpet that the crier said flew, and then he left town

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 purses	nummod
4	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paid	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 carpet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 carpet	det
7	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 carpet	amod
8	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 said	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crier	det
11	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carpet	acl:relcl
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 left	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 left	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 left	nsubj
18	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paid	conj
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	He	forty purses		for a fake carpet	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent purse=Asset for carpet=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the crier	a fake carpet			tree rules
3	fly	past					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	past	crier	town	then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He paid forty purses for a magic carpet thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 purses	nummod
4	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paid	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 thing	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carpet	compound
8	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	He	forty purses				for a carpet thing	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent purse=Asset for thing=Theme

Option 3

He handed over forty purses for a magic tapestry that only flew when the crier said so

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 handed	nsubj
2	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 purses	case
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 purses	nummod
5	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 handed	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 tapestry	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tapestry	det
8	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tapestry	amod
9	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handed	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 flew	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tapestry	acl:relcl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 said	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crier	det
15	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 handed	advcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	16 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	hand	past	He	forty purses	for a magic tapestry	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fly	past	a magic tapestry			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the crier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He paid forty for a rug that wouldn't fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 paid	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 rug	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rug	det
6	rug	rug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fly	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fly	advmod
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rug	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	He	forty				for a rug	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent forty=Asset for rug=Theme
2	not fly	would	a rug						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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