Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…
Bruv, what's the prince's one wish, like, for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: one wish
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 prince | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 wish | nummod |
| 9 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 11 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 9 wish | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 real | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 real | case |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wish | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the prince's one wish | Bruv vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | 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
To find what the cypress did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cypress | det |
| 5 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
Option 2
To know what the rose did to the cypress, and why it still matters
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 know | mark |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 matters | parataxis |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rose | det |
| 5 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cypress | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cypress | det |
| 9 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 matters | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 matters | cc |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 matters | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 matters | nsubj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 matters | advmod |
| 15 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the rose | to the cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | matter | present | it | still | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
To know what the rose did to the cypress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 know | mark |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rose | det |
| 5 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cypress | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cypress | det |
| 9 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the rose | to the cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
Option 4
To know the rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 know | mark |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rose | det |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | the rose | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus |
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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