Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…
wait, so what even is a grand-vizir, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: grand vizir
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 wait | obl |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 vizir | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 vizir | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 vizir | det |
| 8 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 vizir | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 grand | punct |
| 10 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vizir | conj |
| 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 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a grand vizir and mate | 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
like the top advisor to the king who runs the whole government
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 advisor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 advisor | det |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 advisor | amod |
| 4 | advisor | advisor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advisor | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 runs | nsubj |
| 9 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 government | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 government | amod |
| 12 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 runs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | the king | the whole government | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme government=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
like the top advisor to the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 advisor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 advisor | det |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 advisor | amod |
| 4 | advisor | advisor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advisor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
like the top advisor to the king and basically the boss of the whole palace
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 advisor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 advisor | det |
| 3 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 advisor | amod |
| 4 | advisor | advisor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advisor | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boss | cc |
| 9 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 11 boss | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boss | det |
| 11 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advisor | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a sort of royal treasurer, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sort | det |
| 2 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 treasurer | case |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 treasurer | amod |
| 5 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sort | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 innit | punct |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sort | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | royal treasurer | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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