Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 20: t…

Wait, what was the Princess's ride-or-die move with the cup?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ride, Princess · What happens: wait, be, ride

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 die	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 die	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ride	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Princess	case
8	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 die	nsubj:outer
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 die	cc
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 or	punct
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
13	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 die	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 cup	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cup	det
16	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 die	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the Princess's ride	with the cup; die property	tree rules
3	ride		the Princess		nom ride «act transitive»: poss=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

she gave it to a servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 servant	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	it	a servant				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to servant=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she kept it at her lips and never drank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 lips	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lips	nmod:poss
6	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drank	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 drank	advmod
9	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	it		her lips			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at lip=Location
2	not drink	past	she not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

she threw it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	past	she	it				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

she drank a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drank	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	she	a little					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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