Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul an…

what did the prince do, like, to get the Simurgh to swoop in?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Simurgh · What happens: like, get, swoop · To what, where: Simurgh

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1208 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul and unmasks the princess's secret» 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	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 like	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Simurgh	det
12	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 swoop	mark
14	swoop	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 get	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	14 swoop	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	imperative · do-support	you not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	the Simurgh	tree rules
3	swoop	to-infinitive	the Simurgh not said here		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

lit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lit	lit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules

Option 2

waved a torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 torch	det
3	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 waved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past		a torch					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

burned a feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feather	det
3	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		a feather					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent feather=Theme

Option 4

shouted at the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 sky	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle				the sky			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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