Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

what's a sultana, is that like a princess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess, sultana · What happens: be · To what, where: sultana

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 161 «Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl offers herself to the sultan» 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	4 sultana	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sultana	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sultana	det
4	sultana	sultana	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 princess	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sultana	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 princess	cop
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 princess	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 princess	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a princess	a sultana					tree rules
2	is	present	a sultana					like a princess	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

it's like his main consort

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	6 consort	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consort	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 consort	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 consort	nmod:poss
5	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 consort	amod
6	consort	consort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					like his main consort	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it's the sultan's wife, basically

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	6 wife	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wife	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sultan	det
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sultan	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
8	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 wife	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the sultan's wife				basically property	tree rules

Option 3

a princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

it's the sultan's queen, yeah

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	6 queen	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 queen	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sultan	det
4	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 queen	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sultan	case
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 queen	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 queen	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the sultan's queen					tree rules

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