Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…
Wait, what gift did Houssain bring, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, gift · What happens: wait, bring · To what, where: mate
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1495 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace» 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 | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 bring | obj |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 6 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · do-support | gift | mate | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme mate=Destination |
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
A woven tapestry, the fancy one from the far east, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tapestry | det |
| 2 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tapestry | amod |
| 3 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tapestry | appos |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 east | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 east | det |
| 10 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 east | amod |
| 11 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mate | punct |
| 13 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tapestry | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A tapestry, the fancy one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tapestry | det |
| 2 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tapestry | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A tapestry, the fancy one with gold thread, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tapestry | det |
| 2 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tapestry | appos |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 thread | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thread | compound |
| 9 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tapestry | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A cloak, the posh one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloak | appos |
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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