Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…
Mate, what colour was the first purse the negro handed over?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, hand over · To what, where: first purse, negro
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 purse | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 colour | punct |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 colour | det |
| 4 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 purse | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 purse | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 purse | amod |
| 8 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 negro | det |
| 10 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 purse | appos |
| 11 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 negro | acl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 handed | compound:prt |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 purse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and what colour | the first purse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hand over | participle | the negro not said here | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 right answer
green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
red
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
tan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tan | tan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
bright emerald green silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 emerald | amod |
| 2 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 silk | compound |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 silk | amod |
| 4 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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