Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…
Was the glass made of ivory or plastic?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: glass
This is test 12 · ★ 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 glass | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 glass | det |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 glass | acl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ivory | case |
| 6 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 plastic | cc |
| 8 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ivory | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 glass | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the glass | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | the glass not said here | of ivory or plastic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Ivory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Marble and gold inlaid stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gold | cc |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Marble | conj |
| 4 | inlaid | inlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stone | amod |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Marble | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inlay | participle | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Ebony wood carved finely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ebony | ebony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wood | amod |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wood | acl |
| 4 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 3 carved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | Ebony wood not said here | finely property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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