Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned…

Did the prince and Gulizar get engaged or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, engage · To what, where: prince, Gulizar

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 engaged	cc
5	Gulizar	Gulizar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 engaged	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 engaged	aux:pass
7	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Did	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 engaged	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	engage	present · passive		Gulizar					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Yeah, they promised each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 promised	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	they	each					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent each=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they exchanged gold rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 exchanged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 exchanged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 exchanged	nsubj
4	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rings	compound
6	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exchanged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exchange	past	they	gold rings					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they made a solemn promise to wed each other soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 promise	det
6	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 promise	amod
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wed	mark
9	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 promise	acl
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 wed	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 wed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	they	a solemn promise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product
2	wed	to-infinitive	they not said here	each				soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, they promised to marry each other and flee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 marry	obj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flee	cc
10	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	they		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	each	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
3	flee	present	they not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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