Test 9 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…

what's up with the prince's horse, is it fast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: horse

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 up	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 up	cop
3	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 horse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 prince	case
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 it	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 horse	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 it	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 up	conj
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 up	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 up	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fast, up property	tree rules
2	is a	present		horse				with the prince's horse	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

Swift as the falcon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 falcon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 falcon	det
4	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swift	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Fast as a dawn breeze over the desert sands at sunrise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sands	mark
2	as	as	ADP	_	1 Fast	fixed
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 breeze	det
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breeze	compound
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sands	nsubj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 desert	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 desert	det
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breeze	nmod
9	sands	sand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 sunrise	case
11	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sands	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sand	present	a dawn breeze over the desert				sunrise		vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Yes, swift as the wind that blows over the hills before dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 swift	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swift	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 blows	nsubj
8	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swift	acl:relcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 hills	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blows	obl
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	swift as the wind			the hills	dawn		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fast as a dawn breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 breeze	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 breeze	det
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breeze	compound
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fast	obl

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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