Test 6 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

What's the Sultan's actual problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: actual problem · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 problem	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Sultan	case
6	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 problem	amod
7	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sultan's actual problem						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 · ← Mova's choice

He's been poisoned by his Vizir

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 poisoned	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poisoned	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 poisoned	aux:pass
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Vizir	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Vizir	nmod:poss
7	Vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poisoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	present · passive	his Vizir	He					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He's badly ill and needs snake meat

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 ill	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 needs	cc
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	conj
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meat	compound
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					badly, ill property	tree rules
2	need	present	He not said here	snake meat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme

Option 3

He's losing his grip on the kingdom and needs a new heir to take over

The tree, 16 words

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	3 losing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 losing	aux
3	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grip	nmod:poss
5	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losing	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 kingdom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kingdom	det
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losing	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 needs	cc
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 losing	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 heir	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heir	amod
13	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heir	acl
16	over	over	ADP	_	15 take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lose	present · progressive	He	his grip	the kingdom	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=Eventuality
2	need	present	He not said here	a new heir		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heir=Theme
3	take over	to-infinitive	He not said here	a new heir not said here		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	grip		his = he			nom grip «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He's properly sick and the wise blokes reckon only snake flesh will sort him

The tree, 15 words

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 sick	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
3	properly	properly	ADV	_	4 sick	advmod
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reckon	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 blokes	det
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blokes	amod
8	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reckon	nsubj
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	conj
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 flesh	advmod
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flesh	compound
12	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sort	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sort	aux
14	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 reckon	ccomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sort	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		properly, sick property	tree rules
2	reckon	present	the wise blokes			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sort	future	snake flesh	him = he		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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