Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

Bruv, so why'd the king want him anyway?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: want · To what, where: Bruv

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 204 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 want	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 want	advmod
5	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bruv	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 want	obj
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 want	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the king	Bruv				anyway property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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

Cos the king says he's a debtor and the princess wants him brought back to her

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 debtor	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 debtor	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 debtor	det
8	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wants	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	nsubj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wants	ccomp
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 brought	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	king	a debtor		tree rules
3	want	present	the princess			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	bring back	past	king		princess	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos the king says he's a debtor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 debtor	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 debtor	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 debtor	det
8	debtor	debtor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	king	a debtor					tree rules

Option 3

Cos he owes the king money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 owes	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owes	nsubj
3	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 money	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 money	compound
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	present	he	the king money					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 4

Cos the king wants his gold back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 wants	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gold	nmod:poss
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 wants	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	present	the king	king's gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

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