Test 2 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…
so who's the girl with the crazy riddle?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: girl
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 girl | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 girl | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 riddle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 riddle | det |
| 8 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 riddle | amod |
| 9 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the girl | with the crazy riddle | 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 right answer
Princess Mihr-afruz
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afruz | compound |
| 2 | Mihr | Mihr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 afruz | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mihr | punct |
| 4 | afruz | afruz | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The princess who is the daughter of King Quimus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 daughter | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Quimus | case |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Quimus | compound |
| 9 | Quimus | Quimus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the princess | the daughter | of King Quimus | tree rules |
Option 3
The princess who sits in the tower with her riddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 princess | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tower | det |
| 7 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 riddle | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the princess | the tower | with princess's riddle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location | |||
| 2 | riddle | princess | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
The queen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | 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. Elamur Cosmic License.
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