Test 7 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…

Okay but where did the Sultan think the singers were hiding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan, singers · What happens: think, hide · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 think	cc
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 think	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Okay	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 singers	det
9	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hiding	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hiding	aux
11	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 think	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the Sultan						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hide	past · progressive	the singers						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Who was playing the lute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 playing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 playing	aux
3	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lute	det
5	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive		the lute					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lute=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Where the musicians were hidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 hidden	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 musicians	det
3	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hidden	aux:pass
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		the musicians					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Where the musicians were hidden behind the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 hidden	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 musicians	det
3	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hidden	aux:pass
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		the musicians		the wall			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind wall=Location

Option 4

How the hidden musicians could sing so sweetly together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 musicians	det
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 musicians	amod
4	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sing	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sing	aux
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 sweetly	advmod
8	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	6 sing	advmod
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	could	the hidden musicians					sweetly, together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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