Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…
Was the widow selling the apple cos she was skint?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: widow · What happens: be, sell · To what, where: widow, apple
This is test 6 · ★ 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 widow | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 widow | det |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 selling | csubj |
| 4 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 apple | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 selling | obj |
| 7 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 10 skint | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 skint | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 skint | cop |
| 10 | skint | skint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 selling | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 selling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the widow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sell | gerund | the apple | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | widow | skint property | 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
Yes, but she was actually quite wealthy and sold it to help the poor
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 wealthy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 wealthy | cc |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wealthy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wealthy | cop |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 wealthy | advmod |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 wealthy | advmod |
| 8 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sold | cc |
| 10 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wealthy | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sold | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sold | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 poor | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 help | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | actually, wealthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sell | past | she not said here | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | she not said here | the poor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poor=Beneficiary |
Option 2
No, she sold it for fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sold | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sold | nsubj |
| 4 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sold | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fun | case |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | she | it | for fun | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for fun=Asset |
Option 3
No, she sold it because she wanted to travel to see her brothers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sold | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sold | nsubj |
| 4 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sold | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 wanted | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sold | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 travel | mark |
| 10 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 travel | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | she | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | past | she | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel not said to happen | to-infinitive | she not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | she not said here | her brothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, she needed the money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 needed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 needed | nsubj |
| 4 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 money | det |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | she | the money | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |
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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