Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

why didn't Houssain just zoom home on the tapestry straight away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Houssain · What happens: not zoom · To what, where: tapestry

This is test 9 · ★ 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	6 zoom	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 zoom	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 zoom	advmod
4	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 zoom	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 zoom	advmod
6	zoom	zoom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 zoom	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 tapestry	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tapestry	det
10	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zoom	obl
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	6 zoom	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 zoom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not zoom	past · do-support	Houssain			the tapestry		away, home property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tapestry=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted to stay and nosey around

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 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nosey	cc
6	nosey	nosey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	conj
7	around	around	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He					around property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He wanted to stay and see the king, the court and the markets before going home

The tree, 16 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 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 court	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 court	det
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 markets	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 markets	det
14	markets	market	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 king	conj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 going	mark
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 see	advcl
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	He			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	He not said here	the king the court and the markets		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
4	go	gerund	He not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Because the tapestry only flies at night, and he had promised to see the whole city first

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 flies	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tapestry	det
3	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 flies	advmod
5	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 promised	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flies	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 promised	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 promised	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 promised	aux
12	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promised	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 city	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 city	amod
17	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	the tapestry		night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	tapestry				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	tapestry not said here	the whole city		first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus

Option 4

He wanted to rest a while

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 rest	mark
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	obj

#	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	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here				while		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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