Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess rev…

Why'd she keep her secret so long?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: keep · To what, where: secret

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 205 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess reveals herself, and the prince is made king and married» 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	4 keep	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 secret	nmod:poss
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 keep	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	she	her secret				long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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 · ← Mova's choice

She was scared of his reaction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 reaction	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 reaction	nmod:poss
6	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					of his reaction; scared property	tree rules
2	react		his = he						nom reaction «process intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She wanted to mess with him a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 mess	mark
4	mess	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mess	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mess	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	mess not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	a bit				with him = he	tree rules

Option 3

Just for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 fun	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 fun	case
3	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

She had to wait for the talisman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wait	mark
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 talisman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 talisman	det
7	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She						tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	She not said here					for the talisman	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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