Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badou…

Did the prince just fancy the idea of a wife he'd never even met?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: fancy, not meet · To what, where: idea, wife

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fancy	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 fancy	advmod
5	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fancy	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 idea	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
12	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 met	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 met	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 met	advmod
15	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 wife	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past · do-support		the idea of a wife					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus
2	not meet	past · perfect	he	a wife not said here					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-Agent

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

Yeah, he was dead keen and wanted to meet her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keen	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keen	amod
6	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 meet	mark
10	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	he	dead keen	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

Option 2

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, he was well keen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keen	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keen	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 keen	advmod
6	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					keen, well property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was dead against it, didn't fancy it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	against	against	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fancy	punct
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fancy	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fancy	advmod
11	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fancy	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fancy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					against it; dead property	tree rules
2	not fancy	past · do-support		it		all			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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