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

What's the lions' trick at the fountain, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trick, lions · What happens: be, trick · To what, where: fountain

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1498 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 85: the Sultan asks for a magic tent and healing water» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lions	det
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trick	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 lions	case
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trick	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lions's trick at the fountain				then		tree rules
2	trick		the lions			the fountain			nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place

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

Two sleep at night and two stay awake at the gate all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sleep	nummod
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 two	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 night	conj
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Two sleep at night			the gate	time	awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Each pair of lions sleeps in turn while the other pair keeps the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleeps	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 lions	case
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
5	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 turn	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sleeps	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 keeps	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pair	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pair	amod
11	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	nsubj
12	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sleeps	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gate	det
14	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	each pair of lions			turn			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in turn=Location
2	keep	present	the other pair	the gate					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two sleep, two stay awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sleep	nummod
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sleep	punct
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sleep	appos
5	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Two sleep					awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Two rest, one watches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 rest	nummod
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watches	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 watches	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 watches	nsubj
5	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	one	Two rest					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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