Test 9 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…
Why was the grand-vizir so salty, lol?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: grand vizir
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | 6 vizir | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vizir | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vizir | det |
| 4 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vizir | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 grand | punct |
| 6 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 salty | nsubj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 salty | advmod |
| 8 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 salty | punct |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 8 salty | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 salty | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the grand vizir | 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
The princes were rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princes | det |
| 2 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rich | cop |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princes | rich property | tree rules |
Option 2
The Sultan favored the young princes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 favored | nsubj |
| 3 | favored | favor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princes | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princes | amod |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 favored | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favor | past | the Sultan | the young princes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Sultan kept the princes beside him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princes | det |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | obj |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Sultan | the princes | beside him = he | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme beside he=Location |
Option 4
The princes got the best seats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princes | det |
| 2 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 seats | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 seats | amod |
| 6 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the princes | the best seats | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seat=Stimulus |
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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