Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

proper harsh, but how many brides did he marry each night?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: many brides · What happens: marry

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» 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	proper	properly	ADV	_	2 harsh	advmod
2	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 marry	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 marry	cc
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brides	amod
7	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 marry	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	aux
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marry	nsubj
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 harsh	parataxis
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 harsh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · do-support	many brides				night		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

one new bride every single evening, and then he had her killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bride	nummod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bride	amod
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killed	nsubj:pass
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 evening	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	amod
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bride	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 had	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 killed	aux
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	obj
13	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive		one new bride					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

one new bride every single evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bride	nummod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bride	amod
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 evening	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	amod
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bride	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

a fresh bride each evening, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bride	det
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bride	amod
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 evening	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bride	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bride	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bride	discourse

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

Option 4

one new bride every single evening, which was proper harsh for her family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bride	nummod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bride	amod
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 evening	nsubj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 evening	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	amod
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 harsh	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 harsh	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 harsh	cop
10	proper	properly	ADV	_	11 harsh	advmod
11	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evening	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 family	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 family	nmod:poss
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 harsh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	every single evening					for bride's family; harsh, properly property	tree rules

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