Test 10 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sist…

the intendant just found the cradle and took it home, no way

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: intendant · What happens: find, take · To what, where: cradle

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 227 «Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sisters' wishes come true, and the cradles float away» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 intendant	det
2	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cradle	det
6	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	obj
10	home	home	ADV	_	8 took	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the intendant	the cradle				no way obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cradle=Topic
2	take	past	the intendant not said here	cradle				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

yeah, he raised the kid himself and told everyone it was his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 raised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raised	nsubj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 raised	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	conj
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 told	obj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 own	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 own	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	raise	past	he	the kid		kid obl	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	he not said here		everyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
3	is	past	it			own property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, he raised it as his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 raised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raised	nsubj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raised	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 son	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	he	it				as his son	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he took the baby to the vizir and they raised it together in secret

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 vizir	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vizir	det
9	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 raised	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 raised	nsubj
12	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 raised	obj
14	together	together	ADV	_	12 raised	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 secret	case
16	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	the baby		the vizir			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme to vizir=Destination
2	raise	past	they	baby		secret		together property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in secret=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he raised the kid himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 raised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 raised	nsubj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 raised	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	he	the kid				kid obl:unmarked	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme

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