Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of Prince Camaralzaman, part 39:…

ok, what did the king say about the prince's ring story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	13 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 story	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 prince	case
12	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 story	compound
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the king					about the prince's ring story	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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

he doubts the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubts	nsubj
2	doubts	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	present	he	the story					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme

Option 2

he thinks the boy is lying about the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thinks	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 ring	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lie	present · progressive	the boy					about the ring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about ring=Location

Option 3

he must trust his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trust	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trust	aux
3	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trust	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	must	he		his son				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he can't doubt his word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doubt	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 doubt	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 doubt	advmod
4	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doubt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not doubt	can	he	his word					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	word		his = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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