Test 3 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…

Lowkey, what was the weird dish the bird wanted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lowkey, bird · What happens: be, want · To what, where: weird dish

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dish	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 dish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dish	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dish	det
6	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dish	amod
7	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	appos
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dish	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the weird dish					tree rules
2	want	past	the bird	the weird dish not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dish=Theme

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

Cucumbers stuffed with pearl sauce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Cucumbers	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sauce	case
4	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sauce	compound
5	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	participle		Cucumbers not said here				with pearl sauce	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sauce=Theme

Option 2

Fried fish with golden sauce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sauce	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sauce	amod
5	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fry	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Stuffed melons with rose water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 melons	amod
2	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melons	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	participle							vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Roast lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lamb	compound
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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