Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…

Fr, what's Alnaschar's big plan for the vizir's daughter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: be · To what, where: big plan

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 193 «Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 plan	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 plan	cop
5	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Alnaschar	case
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	amod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	appos
9	for	for	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vizir	det
11	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 daughter	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 vizir	case
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fr	Alnaschar's big plan				for the vizir's daughter	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

To buy a house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 buy	mark
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	to-infinitive		a house					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 2

Her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hand	nmod:poss
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To marry her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 marry	mark
2	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive		her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

To wed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wed	mark
2	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	to-infinitive							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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