Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three…

Did the intendant tell them about their birth before he snuffed it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: intendant · What happens: tell, snuff · To what, where: them, birth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 intendant	det
3	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 birth	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birth	nmod:poss
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 snuffed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 snuffed	nsubj
11	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 snuffed	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the intendant		them = they			about their birth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about birth=Topic
2	snuff	past	intendant	birth					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

Nah, he died before he told them, rip, and the Sultan made sure nobody else would say a word

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 say	advcl
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rip	punct
10	rip	rip	INTJ	_	7 told	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sultan	det
14	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 made	xcomp
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 made	obj
18	else	else	ADV	_	17 nobody	advmod
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 word	det
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	he				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	make	past	the Sultan	nobody		sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Product
4	say speech: assert	would		a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, he told them about the box, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	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 told	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 box	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 box	det
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they			about the box and mate	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about box=Topic

Option 3

Nah, he died before he told them, rip, so they still don't know who their real parents are

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rip	punct
10	rip	rip	INTJ	_	7 told	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 died	conj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	17 know	ccomp
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 parents	nmod:poss
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 parents	amod
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 who	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	die	past	he			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	past	he	them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	not know	present · do-support	they		still	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	their real parents			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he died before he told them, rip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
10	rip	rip	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	past	he		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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