Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…

Why did the Sultan wanna make the prince his heir?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: make · To what, where: heir, prince

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 make	dep
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heir	nmod:poss
10	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	the Sultan	Sultan's heir	the prince				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset prince=Beneficiary heir=Product

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

Cause he had no kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 kids	det
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Cause	no kids					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was super chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chill	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chill	cop
3	super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chill	amod
4	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	super chill					tree rules

Option 3

Cause the prince saved his whole kingdom from war

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 prince	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kingdom	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kingdom	amod
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 war	case
9	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	save	past	the Cause prince	prince's whole kingdom		war			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme from war=Source

Option 4

He liked him lots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	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 liked	obj
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	He	him = he					tree rules

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