Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three…

Why'd they move to a massive country house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: move · To what, where: massive country house

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 228 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three foundlings grow up, and a pilgrim names three wonders the princess must have» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 move	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 move	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 move	nsubj
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
7	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	compound
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	they			a massive country house			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to house=Trajectory

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

Cos the palace gardens were too small for them, and the intendant wanted them to have proper space, sus

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 gardens	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardens	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gardens	compound
4	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 small	obl
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 small	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wanted	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 intendant	det
13	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 have	mark
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wanted	xcomp
18	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 space	amod
19	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sus	punct
21	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 space	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			cos the palace gardens; for gardens = garden; small property	tree rules
2	want	past	the intendant	gardens = garden		tree rules
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	gardens = garden not said here	proper space and sus		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos the palace gardens were too small for them, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 small	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardens	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gardens	compound
4	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 small	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sus	amod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 small	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 small	punct
11	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the palace gardens					for them = they; small property	tree rules

Option 3

Cos the Sultan kicked them out, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 kicked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	nsubj
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 kicked	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sus	punct
8	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick out	past	the Sultan	them = they				sus obl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Cos the palace was full of spies, fam, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 full	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 spies	case
7	spies	spy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spies	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sus	punct
11	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spies	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the palace					of spies and fam and sus; full property	tree rules

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