Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…
What's a pavilion, then, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: pavilion
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | 4 pavilion | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pavilion | det |
| 4 | pavilion | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 What | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 1 What | case |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a pavilion | 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
A tent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tent | det |
| 2 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A grand carpet for a feast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carpet | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carpet | amod |
| 3 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 feast | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carpet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A big posh tent for an army
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tent | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tent | amod |
| 3 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tent | amod |
| 4 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 army | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 army | det |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tent | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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