Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badou…

So the king had no heir for ages and his vizir was like, just pray, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, vizir · What happens: have, be, pray · To what, where: heir

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 197 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura, part 37: the prince refuses to marry and is locked in a tower» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 heir	det
6	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ages	case
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heir	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 like	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 vizir	nmod:poss
11	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 like	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 like	cop
13	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 pray	advmod
16	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mate	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pray	vocative
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	no heir	for ages		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient
2	is	past	king's vizir			like property	tree rules
3	pray	infinitive				mate vocative	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Yeah, the vizir was dead wise about it and gave the king loads of sensible advice on his heirs

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 wise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wise	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vizir	det
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wise	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wise	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wise	amod
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wise	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wise	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 loads	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loads	compound
14	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 advice	case
16	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 advice	amod
17	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loads	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 heirs	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heirs	nmod:poss
20	heirs	heir	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the vizir					about it; wise property	tree rules
2	give	past	the vizir not said here	the king loads of sensible advice		his heirs			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent load=Theme on heir=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the vizir was dead wise about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 wise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wise	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vizir	det
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wise	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wise	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wise	amod
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the vizir					about it; wise property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, the vizir was well useless, he told the king to pray and then went off to the baths

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 useless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vizir	det
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 useless	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 useless	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 useless	advmod
7	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 useless	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pray	mark
14	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 went	advmod
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 useless	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 went	compound:prt
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 baths	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 baths	det
21	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the vizir			useless, well property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	he	the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	pray not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	go off	past	the vizir not said here		then	to the baths	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the king was dead wise about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 wise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wise	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wise	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wise	amod
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king					about it; wise property	tree rules

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