Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

Who even gets to use that gate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get, use · To what, where: gate

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 gets	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 use	mark
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gets	xcomp
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	use	to-infinitive		that gate					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Only men the Fairy likes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 men	advmod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 likes	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likes	nsubj
5	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	men						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

Men she invites in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invites	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invites	nsubj
3	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 invites	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite in	present	Men						vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Anyone who has the Prince's permission and knocks three times at the iron gate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Anyone	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 permission	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Prince	case
7	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knocks	cc
9	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 knocks	obl:unmarked
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 gate	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gate	det
14	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gate	compound
15	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knocks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		the Prince's permission			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Patient
2	knock	present			time	at the iron gate	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at gate=Patient
3	permit		the Prince				nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Only men she wants to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 men	advmod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wants	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	men						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	men not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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