Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is c…

why was the deer crying, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deer · What happens: be, cry

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1204 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is caught by Jamila, who breaks the spell and sends him off to find the Simurgh» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deer	det
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
5	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 deer	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 cap	det
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deer	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the deer and no cap					why property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the deer and no cap not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

cause the nurse was mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	cop
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the nurse					mean property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause a man was stuck inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	cop
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	a man					inside, stuck property	tree rules

Option 3

cause a prince was trapped in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trapped	nsubj:pass
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trapped	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trapped	aux:pass
5	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	trap	past · passive				it			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in it=Destination

Option 4

cause a prince was trapped inside the deer by a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trapped	nsubj:pass
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trapped	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trapped	aux:pass
5	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 deer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deer	det
8	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trapped	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 spell	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spell	det
11	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	trap	past · passive	a spell			the deer			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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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