Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…
Did Ahmed fall for the fake sick act, no cap?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ahmed · What happens: fall
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fall | aux |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 act | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 act | det |
| 6 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 act | amod |
| 7 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 act | amod |
| 8 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cap | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 cap | det |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 act | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · do-support | Ahmed | for the fake sick act | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for act=Theme |
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
Nope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yup, he rode up to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yup | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rode | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past | he | her = she | Yup vocative | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to she=Trajectory |
Option 3
Nah, he didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he stopped to help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stopped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stopped | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | he | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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