Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…
why did the Sultan promise his niece to the one with the best rarity?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: promise · To what, where: niece
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 promise | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 promise | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sultan | det |
| 4 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | nsubj |
| 5 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 niece | nmod:poss |
| 7 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 rarity | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rarity | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 rarity | amod |
| 14 | rarity | rarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 promise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · do-support | the Sultan | Sultan's niece | to the one with the best rarity goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent niece=Theme to one=Goal |
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
Because the rarities would be displayed in the palace and praised by all the people
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 displayed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rarities | det |
| 3 | rarities | rarity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 displayed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 displayed | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 displayed | aux:pass |
| 6 | displayed | display | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 displayed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 praised | cc |
| 11 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 displayed | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 people | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 praised | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | display | would · passive | the rarities | the palace | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | praise | participle | by all people | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
He loved strange gifts a lot
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 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gifts | amod |
| 4 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loved | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | He | strange gifts | a lot obl:unmarked | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gift=Stimulus |
Option 3
He wanted to see which son would bring the rarest and most useful gift to his court
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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 son | det |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gift | det |
| 10 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 gift | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 useful | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 useful | advmod |
| 13 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rarest | conj |
| 14 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 court | nmod:poss |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | He | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | bring | would | which son | the rarest gift | son's court | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to court=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He was dead curious about rarities
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 | 4 curious | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 curious | cop |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 curious | amod |
| 4 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 rarities | case |
| 6 | rarities | rarity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 curious | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | about rarities; curious property | tree rules |
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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