Test 11 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…

Bruh, why did the brothers not stay at the palace?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: not stay · To what, where: palace

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet the Sultan» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 stay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 stay	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stay	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stay	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 stay	advmod
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stay	past · do-support	the brothers			the palace			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location

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

they wanted to stay with their father

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here					with their father	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with father=Location

Option 2

they had no horses left

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 horses	det
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 horses	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	no horses					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	leave	participle		no horses not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they did not want to leave their sister

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	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	their sister					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they did not want to leave their sister alone in the mountains

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	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountains	det
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	their sister		the mountains		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sister=Theme in mountain=Location

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