Test 5 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sist…

the youngest was saying she'd bag the Sultan, was she jokin'?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, saying bag · What happens: say, bag, be · To what, where: she jokin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	7 bag	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 saying	compound
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	aux
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 bag	compound
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bag	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bag	aux
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jokin	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bag	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bag	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 jokin	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 jokin	compound
13	jokin	jokin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 jokin	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 jokin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · progressive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bag	would	she		tree rules
3	is a	past	the saying bag	she jokin	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

yeah, she was joking but then she went and told everyone about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 joking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 joking	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 joking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joking	aux
5	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joking	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 joking	conj
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 told	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 everyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	past · progressive	she				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	she		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	everyone		about it	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 2

yeah, she was just messing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 messing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 messing	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 messing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messing	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 messing	advmod
6	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mess	past · progressive	she						tree rules

Option 3

nah, she was totally serious and had already told the Sultan herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 serious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 serious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 serious	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 serious	advmod
6	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
9	already	already	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 serious	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sultan	det
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					serious, totally property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	she not said here	herself = she	the Sultan				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she said it was only a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 joke	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a joke					tree rules

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