Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…
Did the tent really grow, or was she mucking about?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: tent, she · What happens: do, grow, muck about · To what, where: tent
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tent | det |
| 3 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 grow | advmod |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tent | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mucking | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 mucking | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mucking | aux |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mucking | nsubj |
| 10 | mucking | muck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Did | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 mucking | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the tent | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | the tent not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | muck about | past · progressive | she | about 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
Nope, she was just joking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 6 joking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 joking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joking | aux |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 joking | advmod |
| 6 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | past · progressive | she | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It really grew, she was dead serious
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 grew | advmod |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 serious | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 serious | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 serious | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 serious | amod |
| 8 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | It | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | she | serious property | tree rules |
Option 3
It really grew huge, she was dead serious, and the Sultan saw it himself
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 grew | advmod |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 serious | csubj |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 serious | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 serious | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 serious | cop |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 serious | amod |
| 9 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 serious | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | It | huge property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | serious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the Sultan | it | tree rules |
Option 4
It really grew, she was dead serious and showed the Sultan the whole thing
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 grew | advmod |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 serious | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 serious | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 serious | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 serious | amod |
| 8 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 showed | cc |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sultan | det |
| 12 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | It | the whole thing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | she | serious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | past | the Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient |
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