Test 5 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…
No cap, which prince ran ahead to warn her?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: run, warn · To what, where: her
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 4 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 warn | mark |
| 9 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ran | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 warn | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | no cap | ahead property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | no cap not said here | her = she | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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 right answer
Prince Perviz
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Perviz | Perviz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Bahman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Prince Shah Ali
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shah | compound |
| 2 | Shah | Shah | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shah | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The youngest of the three princes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 princes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princes | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 princes | nummod |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 youngest | nmod |
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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