Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

yeah but how much did the crier want for the tapestry first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crier · What happens: do, want · To what, where: much

This is test 5 · ★ 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	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 did	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 did	obj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crier	det
7	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 tapestry	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tapestry	det
11	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	obl
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 want	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		much					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality
2	want	present	the crier					for the tapestry; first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Thirty pieces of gold, fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pieces	nummod
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fair	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pieces	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pieces	punct
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Eighty purses, and he laughed when Houssain offered anything less than that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 purses	nummod
2	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laughed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 laughed	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laughed	nsubj
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 offered	mark
8	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 offered	nsubj
9	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	advcl
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 offered	obj
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 anything	amod
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 less	fixed
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 offered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Eighty purses						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	offer	past	Houssain	anything					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent anything=Goal that=Theme

Option 3

Thirty purses, but he would take forty if you hesitated for even one moment

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 purses	nummod
2	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 take	cc
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 purses	acl:relcl
8	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 take	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 hesitated	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 hesitated	nsubj
11	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 take	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 moment	case
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 moment	nummod
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hesitated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	he	forty					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forty=Theme
2	hesitate a condition, not said to happen	past	you				moment		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thirty purses, dead cheeky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 purses	nummod
2	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 purses	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cheeky	amod
5	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 purses	amod

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

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