Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…

Yo, how did the old lady look walking home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, look, walk · To what, where: old lady

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 look	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 look	xcomp
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 walking	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the old lady		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality
2	look	present			tree rules
3	walk	gerund		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

slowly, with her head bent low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 bent	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 slowly	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	nsubj
6	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 bent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	participle	her head					low, slowly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

quickly, head up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 head	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 quickly	punct
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 head	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

slowly, head bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 bent	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 slowly	punct
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	nsubj
4	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	participle	head					slowly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

proud and tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tall	cc
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 proud	conj

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

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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