Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura,…

Why'd the princess get so mad at her nurse, be honest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess, you · What happens: get, be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 200 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura, part 40: Marzavan's ship sinks near the palace, and he gives the sick prince new hope» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 honest	advcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 nurse	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nurse	nmod:poss
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 honest	cop
13	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the princess					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	imperative	you not said here					honest property	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

Her nurse mocked her dream

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 nurse	nmod:poss
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mocked	nsubj
3	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dream	nmod:poss
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past	Her nurse	nurse's dream					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme
2	dream		nurse						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The nurse called her crazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the nurse		her = she			crazy property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The nurse said nobody was there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 there	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the nurse						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	nobody					there property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The nurse said she was lying about the ring and the man who came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	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
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 man	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the nurse		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	past · progressive	nurse	about the ring and the man	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about ring=Location
3	come	past	the man		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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