Test 13 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…

Ngl, what was the princess's first move at the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: first move, palace

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 move	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 move	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 move	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 princess	case
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 move	amod
9	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 move	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the princess's first move		the palace			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

She ordered the gardener to dig the tree at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dig	mark
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dig	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	She		the gardener				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gardener=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dig not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	the tree					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent tree=Instrument at once=Theme

Option 2

She ordered a grand feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feast	det
4	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feast	amod
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	She	a grand feast					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme

Option 3

She greeted the Sultan kindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 greeted	nsubj
2	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 greeted	obj
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 greeted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past	She		the Sultan			kindly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She sent for the head cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 cook	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cook	compound
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	She					for the head cook	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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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