Test 8 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…

Why was the Sultan so hyped on the princes, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: be, hype

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultan	det
4	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hyped	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hyped	advmod
6	hyped	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 princes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princes	det
9	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hyped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fr	punct
11	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 princes	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						why property	tree rules
2	hype	past	the Sultan					on the princes and fr	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

Their views were worth listening to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 views	nmod:poss
2	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worth	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	cop
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 worth	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 listening	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Their views	worth property	tree rules
2	listen	gerund	Their views not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	view		Their = they		nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

They brought wise gifts to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gifts	amod
4	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	They	wise gifts	him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to he=Destination

Option 3

Their views were worth listening to, he said, every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 views	nmod:poss
2	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worth	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	cop
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 worth	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 listening	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worth	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Their views	day	worth property	tree rules
2	listen	gerund	Their views not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	view		Their = they			nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They had traveled far and wide across many lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 traveled	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 traveled	aux
3	traveled	travel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 traveled	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wide	cc
6	wide	wide	ADV	_	4 far	conj
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 lands	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lands	amod
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 traveled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past · perfect	They			many lands		far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across land=Trajectory

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