Test 12 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…
Dude, what did Prince Bahman ask the Sultan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: ask · To what, where: Sultan
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 ask | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sultan | det |
| 9 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | Dude | the Sultan | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
To rest at their house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 rest | mark |
| 2 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rest | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | to-infinitive | their house | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
Option 2
To visit the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 visit | mark |
| 2 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garden | det |
| 4 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 visit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | to-infinitive | the garden | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Co-Agent |
Option 3
To marry the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 marry | mark |
| 2 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | to-infinitive | the princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
Option 4
To come and rest at their humble house tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 come | mark |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rest | cc |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obl |
| 9 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | to-infinitive | tonight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rest | infinitive | their humble house | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
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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