Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: t…
What did Mum rub the lamp for, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: rub · To what, where: lamp
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1431 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 18: the lamp, the genie, and a stolen wedding night» 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 | 4 rub | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rub | aux |
| 3 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rub | nsubj |
| 4 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lamp | det |
| 6 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rub | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 mate | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 for | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rub | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 rub | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past · do-support | Mum | the lamp | for mate | tree rules |
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
To get the genie to bring loads more cash, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 genie | det |
| 4 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 get | xcomp |
| 7 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 cash | advmod |
| 9 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cash | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | the genie | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the genie not said here | loads | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent load=Destination cash=Theme |
Option 2
To get more food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 food | amod |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | more food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
Option 3
To see if the genie'd bring her a fortune, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 see | mark |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 genie | det |
| 5 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fortune | det |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fortune | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | bring a condition, not said to happen | would | the genie | a fortune and innit | her = she | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination fortune=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To get more cash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 cash | amod |
| 4 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | more cash | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cash=Stimulus |
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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