Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 65: the Indian i…

did the princess tell the Sultan the whole story straight away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: tell · To what, where: whole story, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 225 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 65: the Indian is killed and the princess pretends to be mad» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 princess	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 story	amod
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the princess	the whole story	the Sultan			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient story=Topic

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

nah, he told her to rest and talk tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rest	mark
7	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 talk	cc
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rest	conj
10	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he	her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	infinitive	he not said here		tomorrow	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, she told him everything at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 told	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	everything	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic

Option 3

nah, she refused to talk at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refused	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	she						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not talk	to-infinitive	she not said here			all			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, she said nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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