Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…
Was the caravan just a bunch of camels and travellers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: caravan
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caravan | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 caravan | det |
| 3 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bunch | csubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 bunch | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bunch | det |
| 6 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 camels | case |
| 8 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bunch | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 travellers | cc |
| 10 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 camels | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bunch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the caravan | 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
No, it was a market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 market | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 market | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 market | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 market | det |
| 6 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a market | tree rules |
Option 2
No, it was a huge fleet of ships sailing along the coast of Persia
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 fleet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fleet | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fleet | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fleet | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fleet | amod |
| 7 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ships | case |
| 9 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fleet | nmod |
| 10 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 ships | acl |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 coast | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 coast | det |
| 13 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sailing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Persia | case |
| 15 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 coast | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a huge fleet | of ships | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sail | gerund | ships not said here | the coast of Persia | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along coast=Trajectory |
Option 3
No, it was just a town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 town | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 town | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 town | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 town | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a town | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, lots of travellers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 lots | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 travellers | case |
| 5 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lots | nmod |
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.
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