Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

wait, what did his dad make him promise about the Persian?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, dad, him · What happens: wait, make, promise · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 make	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 Persian	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Persian	det
12	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 promise	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past · do-support	his dad	him = he		tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	infinitive	him = he not said here		about the Persian	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Never to sell or put her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 sell	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 sell	mark
3	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sell	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell	to-infinitive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	put away	infinitive			her = she			away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

Option 2

Never to marry the Persian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 marry	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 marry	mark
3	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Persian	det
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	to-infinitive		the Persian					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent persian=Patient

Option 3

Never to sell or send her to market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 sell	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 sell	mark
3	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 send	cc
5	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sell	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 send	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 market	case
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sell	to-infinitive							vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	send	infinitive		her = she		market			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to market=Destination

Option 4

Always to free the Persian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 free	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 free	mark
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Persian	det
5	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 free	nsubj

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

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