Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…

no cap, that dervish was lowkey sus, what did he tell him not to do

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, he, lowkey sus · What happens: be, tell, not do · To what, where: lowkey sus, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 229 «Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman turns to black stone on the mountain» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sus	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 dervish	det
5	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sus	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sus	cop
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sus	amod
8	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 tell	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sus	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 do	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	lowkey sus		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	he	lowkey sus	him = he	tree rules
3	not do not said to happen	to-infinitive	lowkey sus not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

touch the golden bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	imperative	you not said here	the golden bird					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Co-Theme

Option 2

never climb the steep mountain above the black stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 climb	advmod
2	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mountain	det
4	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mountain	amod
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climb	obj
6	above	above	ADP	_	9 stones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stones	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stones	amod
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mountain	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	imperative	you not said here	the steep mountain		the black stones			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme

Option 3

ride to the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 king	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	imperative	you not said here					to the king	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to king=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

climb the mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mountain	det
3	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here	the mountain					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mountain=Theme

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