Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…
did the three princes all agree to meet up after a year?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: three princes · What happens: do, agree, meet up
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1493 «Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 80: Houssain buys a magic tapestry in Bisnagar» 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 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princes | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 princes | nummod |
| 4 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 agree | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 agree | advmod |
| 6 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 did | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 agree | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 meet | compound:prt |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | present | the three princes | all property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | meet up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the three princes not said here | year | vn meet-36.3-1 «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
Yeah, at the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 palace | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 palace | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they never met
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 met | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 met | advmod |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | past | they | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, at the same inn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 inn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 inn | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 inn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inn | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 inn | amod |
| 6 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, they all agreed to meet again at the same inn after one full year had passed
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 agreed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | xcomp |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 meet | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 inn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inn | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 inn | amod |
| 12 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 year | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 year | nummod |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 year | amod |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obl |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | aux |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 meet | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle · passive | they | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | the same inn | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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