Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is c…

what does the magic stick do when she hits him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magic stick, stick · What happens: do, hit · To what, where: him

This is test 6 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stick	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stick	amod
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 hits	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hits	nsubj
9	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hits	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	the magic stick						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	hit	present	stick	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

it turns him back into Prince Almas in a flash

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	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 turns	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 Almas	case
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Almas	nmod:desc
7	Almas	Almas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 flash	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flash	det
10	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	it	him = he		Almas Prince		in a flash	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

turns him back into Prince Almas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turns	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 turns	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 Almas	case
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Almas	nmod:desc
6	Almas	Almas	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present		him = he		Almas Prince			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

he flies off to the Simurgh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flies	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Simurgh	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Simurgh	det
6	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	present	he					to the Simurgh result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to simurgh=Result

Option 4

it turns him back into Prince Almas and heals him fully

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	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 turns	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 Prince	case
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
7	Almas	Almas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	flat
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heals	cc
9	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heals	obj
11	fully	fully	ADV	_	9 heals	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	it	him = he				into Prince	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	heal	present		Prince				fully property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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