Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

Real talk, what did the Persian say she'd be stoked about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Persian · What happens: say, stoke · To what, where: Real talk, Persian · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Persian	det
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stoked	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stoked	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 stoked	aux:pass
12	stoked	stoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 say	ccomp
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 stoked	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Persian	Real talk					tree rules
2	stoke	would · passive		Persian				about 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

Being sold again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sold	aux:pass
2	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 sold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund · passive					again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»

Option 2

Cooking for the whole house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 house	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cooking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	gerund						for the whole house	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for house=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Being given to Noureddin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 given	aux:pass
2	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Noureddin	case
4	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund · passive			Noureddin				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to noureddin=Recipient

Option 4

Being sent to the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sent	aux:pass
2	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund · passive			the king				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to king=Destination

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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