Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

Did the little slaves just hype it up and cry for no reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little slaves · What happens: hype up, cry · To what, where: it

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slaves	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slaves	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slaves	amod
4	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hype	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 hype	advmod
6	hype	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hype	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 hype	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cry	cc
10	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hype	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 reason	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 reason	det
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cry	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hype	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype up	present	the little slaves	it					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	the little slaves not said here					for no reason	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for reason=Recipient

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

They fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They shrieked and wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shrieked	nsubj
2	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wept	cc
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shrieked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shriek	past	They						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	weep	past	They not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They bowed and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 left	cc
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	past	They						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past	They not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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