Test 11 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…
Okay, what did the people whisper about the princes?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: do, whisper
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 232 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan is invited to the princess's house, and she plans a feast with pearl-stuffed cucumbers» 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 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Okay | 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 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whisper | nsubj |
| 7 | whisper | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 princes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princes | det |
| 10 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whisper | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | present | the people | about the princes | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about prince=Topic |
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 · ✓ the right answer
They looked like the Sultan's sons
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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 sons | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sultan | case |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | They | like the Sultan's sons | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
They were brave
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 | 3 brave | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | cop |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | brave property | tree rules |
Option 3
They were strangers
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 | 3 strangers | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strangers | cop |
| 3 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | They | strangers | tree rules |
Option 4
They dressed like the vizir's men
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 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vizir | det |
| 5 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 vizir | case |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dressed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | They | like the vizir's men | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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