Test 1 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…
Was the king proper narked when Nur Mahomed turned up grinning at the durbar?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nur · What happens: be, nark, turn up, grin · To what, where: king, durbar
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 king | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 narked | obl |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 narked | advmod |
| 5 | narked | nark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 turned | mark |
| 7 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nur | flat |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 narked | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 turned | compound:prt |
| 11 | grinning | grin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 turned | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 durbar | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 durbar | det |
| 14 | durbar | durbar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grinning | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 narked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nark | past | properly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn up | past | Nur | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grin | gerund | Nur not said here | the durbar | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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
Not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 really | advmod |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, he was chuffed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 chuffed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chuffed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chuffed | aux:pass |
| 5 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuff | past · passive | he | tree rules |
Option 3
Yeah, he was narked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 narked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 narked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 narked | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 narked | aux:pass |
| 5 | narked | nark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nark | past · passive | he | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was livid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 livid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 livid | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 livid | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 livid | cop |
| 5 | livid | livid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | livid property | tree rules |
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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