Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is c…

what does the Scorpion sword do, like how strong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scorpion sword · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★ 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 sword	det
4	Scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sword	compound
5	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strong	csubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strong	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 strong	case
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 strong	advmod
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 strong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	the Scorpion sword						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

it cuts through rock

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 cuts	nsubj
2	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 rock	case
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cuts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	it					through rock	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through rock=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it burns through iron

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 burns	nsubj
2	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 iron	case
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	it			iron			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through iron=Location

Option 3

it cuts wood

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 cuts	nsubj
2	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cuts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	it	wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material wood=Product

Option 4

it's sharp

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 sharp	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sharp	cop
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					sharp 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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