Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of Prince Camaralzaman, part 39:…

wild, what does the vizir do when the prince gets mad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: do, get · To what, where: wild

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 199 «Arabian Nights, The Tale of Prince Camaralzaman, part 39: the prince wakes beside the sleeping princess, and the king learns of the mystery» 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	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 does	obj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wild	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vizir	det
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gets	aux
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 gets	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gets	nsubj
11	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	conj
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gets	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		wild					tree rules
2	get	present · do-support	the prince					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

begs him to listen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	begs	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 begs	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 listen	mark
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 begs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	present			him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	listen not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

orders the guards to hold him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 orders	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hold	mark
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 orders	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 hold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	present		the guards					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme
2	hold down	to-infinitive		him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

tells him to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 tells	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rest	mark
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 tells	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present			him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

calms him down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 calms	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 calms	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	calm down	present		him = he					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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