Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul an…

what was the princess's big secret, the one she hid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: big secret, one

This is test 8 · ★ 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	7 secret	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 secret	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secret	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 princess	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 secret	amod
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secret	appos
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hid	nsubj
12	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 secret	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the princess's big secret					tree rules
2	hide	past	princess	the one not said here					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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

the wicked Latifa's plot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Latifa	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Latifa	amod
3	Latifa	Latifa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 plot	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Latifa	case
5	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plot		the wicked Latifa						nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

the negro hiding under her throne since the night of the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 negro	det
2	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 negro	acl
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 throne	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 throne	nmod:poss
6	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl
7	since	since	ADP	_	9 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 feast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feast	det
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 night	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund	the negro not said here			her throne	night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under throne=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the negro under her throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 negro	det
2	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 throne	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 throne	nmod:poss
5	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 negro	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the negro under her throne, which the king never found out about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 negro	det
2	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 throne	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 throne	nmod:poss
5	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 negro	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 found	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 found	advmod
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 found	compound:prt
13	about	about	ADV	_	11 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find out	past	the negro under negro's throne					about property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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