Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…

ngl, what's the point of all these tales anyway?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: point

This is test 13 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 point	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 point	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 point	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 point	det
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 tales	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 tales	det:predet
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 tales	det
10	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 point	nmod
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 tales	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	ngl	the point				of all tales	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

to teach kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 teach	mark
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	to-infinitive			kids				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kid=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

old stories told to grown-ups in Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stories	amod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stories	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 ups	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Asia	case
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ups	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		old stories not said here	grown ups in Asia				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to up=Recipient
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

old tales told to adults in Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tales	amod
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tales	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Asia	case
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		old tales not said here	adults	Asia			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to adult=Recipient

Option 4

stories told to grown-ups in Arabia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 stories	acl
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 ups	case
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ups	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 grown	punct
6	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Arabia	case
8	Arabia	Arabia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ups	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		stories not said here	grown ups in Arabia				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to up=Recipient
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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