Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…
Hold up, where did Aladdin's palace land?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hold up, do · To what, where: palace land
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1433 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: the palace flies home, and the magician's brother, disguised as Fatima, asks for a roc's egg» 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Hold | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 did | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | parataxis |
| 6 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 land | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Aladdin | case |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 land | compound |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | imperative | you not said here | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | do | past | Aladdin's palace land | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality |
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
near Cairo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | near | ADP | _ | 2 Cairo | case |
| 2 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
back in the capital city of China
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 city | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 4 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 city | amod |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 back | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 China | case |
| 7 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 city | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
by the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
back in China
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 China | case |
| 3 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 back | obl |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1433-pg503-part20/t14/