Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back…

Did her dad, the King of Bengal, say yes to it all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: say · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 226 «Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back the princess and tricks the Sultan» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 King	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Bengal	case
8	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 say	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 it	det
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	her dad		it				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yes=Topic to it=Recipient

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

Yep, he was totally cool with it, though he cried a lot before saying yes

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 cool	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cool	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cool	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 cool	advmod
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cool	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 cried	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cool	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 saying	mark
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cried	advcl
17	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	16 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		with it; cool, totally property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	he	a lot		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
3	say speech: assert	gerund	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 2

Yep, he was totally cool with it and even threw a big party after

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 cool	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cool	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cool	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 cool	advmod
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cool	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 threw	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 threw	advmod
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cool	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 party	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 party	amod
14	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obj
15	after	after	ADP	_	11 threw	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					with it; cool, totally property	tree rules
2	throw after	past	he not said here	a big party					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme

Option 3

Nope, he was furious about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 furious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 furious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	cop
5	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 furious	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about it; furious property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he was totally cool with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 cool	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cool	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cool	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 cool	advmod
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cool	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					with it; cool, totally property	tree rules

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