Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

So who told the mum the dad had changed his mind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: tell, change, mind · To what, where: mum, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mum	det
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dad	det
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 changed	aux
9	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mind	nmod:poss
11	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			the mum	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	change	past · perfect	the dad	dad's mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
3	mind		dad			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

The little slave girl who was bought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girl	compound
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 bought	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bought	aux:pass
7	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 girl	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · passive		the little slave girl					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

The Persian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Persian	det
2	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Noureddin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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