Test 12 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

What did Wali Dâd reckon the glowing beings were?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: glowing beings, Wali · What happens: be, reckon, glow

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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	root	root
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
4	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wali	flat
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beings	det
7	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 beings	amod
8	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 What	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	past	the glowing beings	tree rules
2	reckon	past · do-support	Wali	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	glow	gerund		vn light_emission-43.1 «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

Peris from Paradise, no doubt, sent by the prince himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peris	Peris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Paradise	case
3	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Peris	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doubt	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 doubt	det
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Peris	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 doubt	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 prince	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 prince	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		no doubt not said here				by the prince Paradise	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Jinns from the hills, no doubt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jinns	jinn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 hills	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hills	det
4	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Jinns	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doubt	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 doubt	det
7	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Jinns	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Peris from Paradise, no doubt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peris	Peris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Paradise	case
3	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Peris	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doubt	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 doubt	det
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Peris	appos

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Peris from Paradise, no doubt, and they've come to take him home

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peris	Peris	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Paradise	case
3	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Peris	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doubt	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 doubt	det
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Peris	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Peris	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obj
15	home	home	ADV	_	13 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	they						tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	they not said here		Paradise			home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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