Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess rev…
Why was Saouy salty at Khacan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Saouy salty · What happens: be
This is test 8 · ★ 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=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | cop |
| 3 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 salty | compound |
| 4 | salty | salty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Khacan | case |
| 6 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 salty | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Saouy salty at Khacan | why 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 · ← Mova's choice
Khacan got all the honour Saouy wanted for himself at court and more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 honour | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 honour | det |
| 5 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | Saouy | Saouy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 wanted | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 got | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Khacan | all honour | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Saouy | court | for Saouy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2
Khacan got the honour he wanted and the king's full trust
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 honour | det |
| 4 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 honour | acl:relcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 trust | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trust | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trust | amod |
| 12 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Khacan | the honour | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Khacan | the honour not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot honour=Theme | ||||
| 3 | trust | the king | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Khacan won the king's trust first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 won | nsubj |
| 2 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 | 6 trust | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 won | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 won | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | Khacan | the king's trust | first property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | trust | the king | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Khacan got the honour he wanted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khacan | Khacan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 honour | det |
| 4 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 honour | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Khacan | the honour | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Khacan | the honour not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot honour=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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