Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

Why was the mum heading to the bath, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: head

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heading	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heading	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heading	nsubj
5	heading	head	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bath	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bath	det
8	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heading	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anyway	punct
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 heading	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 heading	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	head	past · progressive	the mum					to the bath; anyway property	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

To wash her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wash	mark
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive		her hair					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To get glammed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 glammed	mark
2	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 glammed	aux:pass
3	glammed	glamm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 glammed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glamm up	to-infinitive · passive							tree rules

Option 3

To sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sleep	mark
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	to-infinitive							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

To pray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pray	mark
2	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	to-infinitive							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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