Test 5 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…
Dude, what did the Sultan want them to bring back?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude, Sultan, them · What happens: do, want, bring back · To what, where: them
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 want | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the Sultan | them = they | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | them = they not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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
the sultan's letter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 letter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sultan | case |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | letter | the sultan | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
their sister's advice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sister | case |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the sister's magic cage and her advice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cage | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sister | case |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cage | amod |
| 5 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 advice | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 advice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cage | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
their brother's return
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 brother | case |
| 4 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | their brother | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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