--- title: So who told the mum the dad had changed his mind? — Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part… · tree and pragmatics description: So who told the mum the dad had changed his mind? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/206-pg128-part46/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/206-pg128-part46/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s… So who told the mum the dad had changed his mind? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** tell, change, mind · **To what, where:** mum, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/206-pg128-part46/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t10:1 # text = So who told the mum the dad had changed his mind? 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | | the mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **change** | past · perfect | the dad | dad's mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 3 | **mind** | | dad | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The little slave girl who was bought ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t10:o1:1 # text = The little slave girl who was bought 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | past · passive | | the little slave girl | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} The Persian ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t10:o2:1 # text = The Persian 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Persian Persian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The merchant ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t10:o3:1 # text = The merchant 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Noureddin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t10:o4:1 # text = Noureddin 1 Noureddin Noureddin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 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. 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