Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king…

did the princesses squad up or did one of them snitch?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: princesses · What happens: squad up, do, snitch · To what, where: one

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 203 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king makes a stranger his heir, and a gardener's treasure is found» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 squad	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princesses	det
3	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squad	nsubj
4	squad	squad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 squad	compound:prt
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 squad	conj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 did	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nmod
11	snitch	snitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 squad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	squad up	past · do-support	the princesses		tree rules
2	do	past	the princesses not said here	one of princesses	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
3	snitch speech: other	infinitive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: 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

they squad up for the wedding but then one of them secretly betrays the other to the guard

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squad	nsubj
2	squad	squad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 squad	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 wedding	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wedding	det
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squad	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 betrays	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 betrays	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	13 betrays	advmod
13	betrays	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 squad	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 betrays	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 guard	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 guard	det
18	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 betrays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squad up	present	they					for the wedding	tree rules
2	betray	present	one of them	the other				to the guard; secretly property	tree rules

Option 2

one told the king in private

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 private	case
6	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	one		the king	private			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

Option 3

they squad up at first, but one of them snitches later to the king in private

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squad	nsubj
2	squad	squad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 squad	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 squad	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 snitches	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 snitches	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 snitches	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nmod
11	snitches	snitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 squad	conj
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 snitches	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snitches	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 private	case
17	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snitches	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squad up	present	they						tree rules
2	snitch speech: other	present	one of them		the king	private		late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they squad up and keep it secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squad	nsubj
2	squad	squad	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 squad	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 squad	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squad up	present	they						tree rules
2	keep	infinitive	they not said here	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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