Test 7 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sist…
they just chilled in the palace till the baby came, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, baby · What happens: chill, come, innit · To what, where: palace
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chilled | nsubj |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 chilled | advmod |
| 3 | chilled | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chilled | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 innit | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 chilled | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 chilled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | past | they | the palace | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the baby | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | 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, they stayed right till the birth and then some extra months after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 birth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 birth | det |
| 8 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 months | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 months | advmod |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 months | det |
| 12 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 months | amod |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stayed | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 stayed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay after | past | they | till the birth | right property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, they stayed till the birth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 7 birth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birth | det |
| 7 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | they | till the birth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, they left after the wedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 wedding | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | they | after the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
yeah, they moved out at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 moved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 moved | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move out | past | they | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
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