Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3…
Is the garden a total mess, or is it nice, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mess · What happens: be · To what, where: garden
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1202 «Arabian Nights, The Prince and Mihr-afruz's Riddle, part 3: the prince enters the garden and is taken for a madman» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 garden | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mess | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mess | det |
| 5 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mess | amod |
| 6 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nice | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 nice | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nice | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nice | nsubj |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mess | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mate | punct |
| 13 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nice | vocative |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 mess | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the garden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | mess | mate vocative; nice property | 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
It is a lovely garden, full of birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 garden | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 garden | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 garden | amod |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 garden | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a lovely garden | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is so nice, like a paradise with birds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nice | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nice | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 nice | advmod |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 paradise | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 paradise | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 paradise | det |
| 8 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nice | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 birds | case |
| 10 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 paradise | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | like a paradise with birds; nice property | tree rules |
Option 3
It is a quiet, pretty garden here
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 garden | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 garden | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 garden | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 garden | amod |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 garden | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a quiet pretty garden | here | tree rules |
Option 4
It is nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 nice | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 nice | cop |
| 3 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | nice property | tree rules |
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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