Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

Wait, the lions, how many were there at the gate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: lions, gate

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lions	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lions	det
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 there	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lions	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 gate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 there	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the lions					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	many			the gate		there property	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

Four, two sleeping and two up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sleeping	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sleeping	nsubj
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Four	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 two	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Four	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 two	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund	two						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Four, and two were asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 asleep	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 asleep	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Four	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	two					asleep property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Four lions, and two of them stayed awake all night watching the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lions	nummod
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stayed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stayed	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stayed	cc
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 stayed	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 two	nmod
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	awake	awake	ADV	_	8 stayed	advmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stayed	obl:unmarked
12	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stayed	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Four lions				night	awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	gerund	Four lions not said here	the castle					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four, and two were always awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 awake	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 awake	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 awake	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 awake	advmod
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Four	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	two					always, awake property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1498-pg503-part85/t4/