Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

real talk, what did the Persian keep telling him to stop doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Persian, real talk · What happens: keep, tell, stop, do · To what, where: real talk, Persian · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» 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 keep	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 keep	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Persian	det
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
9	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 telling	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stop	mark
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 telling	xcomp
13	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stop	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the Persian	real talk		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	real talk not said here		Persian	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	real talk not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	do	gerund	real talk not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Inviting all his friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inviting	invite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 friends	det:predet
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Inviting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	gerund			his friends				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient

Option 2

Throwing lavish parties and giving gifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	lavish	lavish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parties	amod
3	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 giving	cc
5	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Throwing	conj
6	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		lavish parties					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme
2	give	gerund		gifts					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme

Option 3

Holding feasts and gambling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Holding	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gambling	cc
4	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feasts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		feasts and gambling					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Throwing parties and spending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 spending	cc
4	spending	spending	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parties	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		parties and spending					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme

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