Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

bruv, what did she actually say to her dad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: do, say · To what, where: dad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dad	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dad	nmod:poss
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bruv						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	bruv		bruv's dad			actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dad=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

she asked him

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	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 asked	iobj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she begged him to let her wed

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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	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 begged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	she		him = he	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	let	to-infinitive	she not said here	her = she		tree rules
3	wed	infinitive	her = she not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

she asked him to let her marry

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 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	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 asked	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	she		him = he	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	her = she		tree rules
3	marry	infinitive	her = she not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she begged him to let her be the bride

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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	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 begged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bride	det
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	she		him = he	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	let	to-infinitive	she not said here	her = she		tree rules
3	be	infinitive	the bride			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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