Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

bruv, why did the Sultan send all three of them off travelling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan, three · What happens: send, travel

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 send	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 send	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 send	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 send	nsubj
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 three	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 travelling	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 three	nmod
12	off	off	ADP	_	9 three	compound:prt
13	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 send	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · do-support	the Sultan					bruv vocative	tree rules
2	travel	gerund	all three of them						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

To make them richer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		them = they				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So they wouldn't fight over his niece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 fight	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fight	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fight	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fight	advmod
5	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 niece	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 niece	nmod:poss
8	niece	niece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fight	would	they					over his niece	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over niece=Theme

Option 3

To keep them busy and far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 away	cc
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 busy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		them = they				busy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

So they'd bring back gifts for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 bring	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 bring	advmod
6	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	would	they	gifts				for him = he	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

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