Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

Why'd the Fairy let her in anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy, her · What happens: let, in · To what, where: her

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1497 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 84: the magician fakes a fever and gets in» 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 let	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	in	in	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 in	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would	the Fairy	her = she					tree rules
2	in	infinitive	her = she not said here					anyway property	tree rules

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

She was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nice	cop
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					nice property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ahmed asked her to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	2 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Ahmed		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3

Dunno

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Because she was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 tired	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					tired property	tree rules

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