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

why didn't she invite schaibar to the wedding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: not invite · To what, where: schaibar

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1499 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 86: Ahmed fetches the lions' water, then meets Schaibar, the Fairy's giant brother» 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 invite	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invite	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 invite	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 invite	nsubj
5	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	schaibar	schaibar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invite	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invite	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 invite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not invite	past · do-support	she	schaibar				to the wedding	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schaibar=Recipient

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

she didn't want to mess up his mission

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	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 mess	mark
6	mess	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 mess	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mission	nmod:poss
9	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mess	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	mess up not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	his mission					tree rules

Option 2

she didn't want him there

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	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 want	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	she	him = he		there			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 3

she wanted him to finish first

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 finish	mark
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 finish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	finish not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					first property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

she didn't want him at the wedding, cause he'd cause trouble

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	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 wedding	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cause	punct
10	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wedding	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cause	nsubj
12	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cause	aux
13	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	parataxis
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	she	him = he		the wedding and cause			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	cause	would	he	trouble					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient

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