Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned…

Why'd the princess give the old woman a proper bashing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: give · To what, where: proper bashing, old woman

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1853 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned pilaw meant for the vizier's son» 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	5 give	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bashing	det
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bashing	amod
11	bashing	bashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	the princess	a proper bashing	the old woman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient bashing=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She blabbed about the strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blabbed	nsubj
2	blabbed	blab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 strangers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strangers	det
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blab speech: other	past	She					about the strangers	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She told on the travellers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 travellers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 travellers	det
5	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	She			the travellers			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She spilled some tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spilled	nsubj
2	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 tea	det
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	She	some tea					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tea=Theme

Option 4

She grassed on the strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grassed	nsubj
2	grassed	grass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 strangers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strangers	det
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grassed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grass	past	She			the strangers			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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