Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

fr, why did Dinarzade have to wake her up before sunrise?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dinarzade · What happens: have, wake up · To what, where: Dinarzade

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 fr	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wake	mark
8	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wake	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 wake	compound:prt
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 sunrise	case
12	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wake	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	Dinarzade						tree rules
2	wake up	to-infinitive	Dinarzade not said here	Dinarzade			sunrise		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=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

to ask for a story before the sun came up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 story	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	advcl
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive						for a story	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come up	past	the sun						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to ask Scheherazade to finish the story she had started the evening before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 ask	mark
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 finish	mark
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 started	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 started	aux
10	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 story	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 evening	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 started	obl:unmarked
13	before	before	ADV	_	10 started	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			Scheherazade			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent scheherazade=Recipient clause=Topic
2	finish not said to happen	to-infinitive		the story				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality
3	start	past · perfect	Scheherazade	the story not said here		evening	before property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality

Option 3

to get her sister to tell the story early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		her sister					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	her sister not said here	the story				early property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

Option 4

because the Sultan had sent for her at midnight and she needed to prepare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 sent	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 needed	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 needed	nsubj
12	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 prepare	mark
14	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 needed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		the Sultan	midnight	for her = she	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	need	past	she				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	prepare not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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