Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

did the crier try to sell him the tapestry for less in the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crier · What happens: try, sell · To what, where: tapestry, crier, end

This is test 10 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crier	det
3	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	nsubj
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tapestry	det
9	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sell	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 less	case
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sell	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sell	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	the crier						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	the crier not said here	the tapestry	crier		in the end	for less	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tapestry=Theme for less=Asset

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

Yeah, thirty purses, fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 purses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 purses	nummod
4	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 purses	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, forty purses, no discount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 purses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 purses	nummod
4	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 discount	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 discount	det
7	discount	discount	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purses	conj

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

Option 3

Yeah, down to twenty-five purses once Houssain threatened to walk out of the shop

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 down	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 down	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	11 threatened	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 purses	case
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 five	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 purses	nummod
8	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 down	obl
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 Houssain	case
10	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 purses	nmod
11	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 walk	mark
13	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 threatened	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 shop	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 shop	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shop	det
17	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past						down property	tree rules
2	walk out not said to happen	to-infinitive		the shop					vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he dropped it to thirty purses after Houssain argued with him for a whole hour

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 argued	csubj:pass
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 purses	case
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 purses	nummod
8	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropped	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 Houssain	case
10	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 argued	obl
11	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 argued	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 hour	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hour	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hour	amod
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	it		thirty purses			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to purse=Destination
2	argue speech: disagree	past					after Houssain; hour	with Houssain	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

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