Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…
Who's the lady at the palace then?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: lady, palace
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lady | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lady | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lady | nmod |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 palace | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lady | the palace | 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
Some majestic lady, proper posh, standing at the porch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 posh | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 posh | amod |
| 6 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 standing | punct |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 posh | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 porch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 porch | det |
| 11 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the porch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at porch=Location |
Option 2
Some majestic lady, proper posh, waiting by the iron door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 posh | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 posh | amod |
| 6 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 posh | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 door | amod |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | by the iron door | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Some old lady, proper rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rich | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rich | amod |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Some majestic lady, proper posh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 posh | amod |
| 6 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
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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