Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63:…

Why was the Indian's price totally bonkers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Indian price · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 223 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63: the prince tells his flight and dines with the princess» 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=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 price	det
4	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 price	amod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Indian	case
6	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 bonkers	advmod
8	bonkers	bonker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 price	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Indian price and bonkers					why 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 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted the princess's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 princess	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the princess's hand					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme

Option 2

He wanted the princess's hand and a palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 princess	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 palace	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the princess's hand and a palace					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme

Option 3

He wanted the princess's hand in marriage for his own son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 princess	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 marriage	case
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 son	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 son	amod
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the princess's hand		marriage		for his own son	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme

Option 4

He demanded a whole kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 demanded	nsubj
2	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kingdom	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kingdom	amod
5	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 demanded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	He	a whole kingdom					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kingdom=Precondition

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