Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…

Innit the king kept saying Douban was honest, so why did he change his mind?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit king, Douban · What happens: keep, say, be, change, mind · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 166 «Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, part 6: the king doubts the vizir, then condemns the physician to death» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 king	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	Douban	Douban	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 honest	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 honest	cop
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saying	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 change	advmod
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 change	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 change	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 change	nsubj
14	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mind	nmod:poss
16	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 change	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Innit king			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Innit king not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Douban		honest property	tree rules
4	change	past · do-support	Douban	Douban's mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
5	mind		Douban			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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 queen begged him daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	obj
5	daily	daily	ADV	_	3 begged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the queen		him = he			daily property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

the vizir sent gold to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vizir	det
2	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the vizir	gold	him = he				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme to he=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the vizir kept wearing him down until he gave in to fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vizir	det
2	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wearing	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 wearing	compound:prt
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 gave	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 gave	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fear	mark
12	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gave	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	the vizir		tree rules
2	wear down	gerund	the vizir not said here	vizir	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source
3	give in	past	vizir		tree rules
4	fear	to-infinitive	vizir not said here		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the vizir kept wearing him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vizir	det
2	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wearing	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 wearing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the vizir						tree rules
2	wear down	gerund	the vizir not said here	vizir					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source

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