Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

Dude, what did the Sultan want to give the dervish?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: do, want, give · To what, where: Sultan, dervish

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	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	1 Dude	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 give	mark
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dervish	det
11	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Dude	the Sultan	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality
2	want	present	Dude		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dude not said here	the dervish	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Theme

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

A horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His daughter's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 daughter	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Half his kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 kingdom	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 kingdom	nmod:poss
3	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

His son's crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crown	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 son	case
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		His son						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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