--- title: wait, the middle one wanted the head cook, right? — Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah,… · tree and pragmatics description: wait, the middle one wanted the head cook, right? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 227 «Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sisters' wishes come true, and the cradles float away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/227-pg128-part67/t4/) [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/) / [Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/227-pg128-part67/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sist… wait, the middle one wanted the head cook, right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, middle one · **What happens:** wait, want · **To what, where:** head cook This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 227 «Persian Tales, The Sultan Kosrouschah, part 67: three sisters' wishes come true, and the cradles float away» 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/227-pg128-part67/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:227-pg128-part67:t4:1 # text = wait, the middle one wanted the head cook, right? 1 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 middle middle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 11 right right INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **want** | past | the middle one | the head cook | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cook=Theme | 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} nah, the royal gardener ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:227-pg128-part67:t4:o1:1 # text = nah, the royal gardener 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} yeah, the chief cook, the one who did the big feasts ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:227-pg128-part67:t4:o2:1 # text = yeah, the chief cook, the one who did the big feasts 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 feasts feast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the one | the big feasts | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Eventuality | ### Option 3 {#o3} yeah, the water boy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:227-pg128-part67:t4:o3:1 # text = yeah, the water boy 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} yeah, the chief cook ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:227-pg128-part67:t4:o4:1 # text = yeah, the chief cook 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cook cook NOUN NN 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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