Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…

Yo, what did the Indian tell the doorkeeper, like, to get in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, tell, get in · To what, where: doorkeeper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Indian	det
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	conj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Indian	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doorkeeper	det
9	doorkeeper	doorkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	7 tell	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	conj
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the doorkeeper	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent doorkeeper=Recipient
3	get in	to-infinitive		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He came from the prince

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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 prince	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	He					from the prince	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from prince=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was sent to fetch her back to the prince, honest, let me in

The tree, 14 words

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	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fetch	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 fetch	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 honest	punct
12	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prince	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fetch	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	14 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		He		tree rules
2	fetch back	to-infinitive	He not said here	her = she	to the prince	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	let in	infinitive	He not said here	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was sent to fetch her

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	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive		He					tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	He not said here	her = she					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

He was sent by the prince to fetch her home right away, so let me in

The tree, 16 words

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	3 sent	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 prince	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fetch	mark
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	8 fetch	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	15 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive	the prince	He		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	her home	away property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme
3	let in	infinitive		me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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