Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

Was the sofa fancy, or just a plain old bed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: sofa fancy

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1497 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 84: the magician fakes a fever and gets in» 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	4 fancy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fancy	det
3	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	compound
4	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bed	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 bed	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	11 bed	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bed	det
9	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bed	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bed	amod
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fancy	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sofa fancy or a plain old bed					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

Nah, it was a plain wooden cot, nothing special, just a basic old bed honestly

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 cot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cot	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cot	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cot	det
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cot	amod
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cot	amod
8	cot	cot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 cot	conj
11	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bed	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	17 bed	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bed	det
15	basic	basic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bed	amod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bed	amod
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cot	conj
18	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	17 bed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a plain wooden cot and a basic old bed					tree rules

Option 2

Kinda simple, wood stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	2 simple	advmod
2	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stuff	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 simple	punct
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuff	compound
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Super fancy, gold stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Super	super	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fancy	amod
2	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stuff	punct
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuff	compound
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Way fancy, like a gold-trimmed bed with silk sheets and jeweled pillows, bro

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	compound
2	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bed	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	9 bed	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bed	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trimmed	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct
8	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bed	amod
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 sheets	case
11	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheets	compound
12	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bed	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pillows	cc
14	jeweled	jewel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pillows	amod
15	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sheets	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bro	punct
17	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trim	participle							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	jewel	participle							tree rules

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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