Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

so the Sultan lets Dinarzade sleep in the room, that's kinda wholesome ngl, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan, that · What happens: let, be · To what, where: Dinarzade sleep, room, wholesome ngl

This is test 4 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 lets	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lets	nsubj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	compound
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ngl	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 ngl	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ngl	cop
13	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	15 ngl	advmod
14	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ngl	amod
15	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ngl	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	4 lets	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	the Sultan	Dinarzade sleep		the room			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme
2	is a	present	that	wholesome ngl				kinda property	tree rules

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

yes, he lets the sister stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lets	nsubj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	obj
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	he	the sister					tree rules
2	stay	infinitive	the sister not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he agrees to it, and he even gives Dinarzade a bed of silk

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 agrees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 agrees	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 agrees	nsubj
4	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gives	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 agrees	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gives	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gives	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gives	nsubj
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 gives	advmod
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gives	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bed	det
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 silk	case
16	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bed	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	he		it				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	present	he	a bed of silk	Dinarzade				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dinarzade=Recipient bed=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

no, he says the sister must leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	aux
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	must	the sister						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he says yes to her sister sleeping there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 says	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sister	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obl
9	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sister	acl
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he		her sister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient
2	sleep	gerund	her sister not said here			there			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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