Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…
so who's Scheherazade then, like the main character?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 's | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 's | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Scheherazade | Scheherazade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 's | nsubj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 's | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 character | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 character | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 character | det |
| 9 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 character | amod |
| 10 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 's | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
the vizir's smart older daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vizir | case |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 5 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, the grand-vizir's clever elder girl who tells the stories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 girl | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vizir | det |
| 4 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vizir | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 grand | punct |
| 6 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 girl | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 vizir | case |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 9 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 tells | nsubj |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 girl | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stories | det |
| 14 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tells | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the grand vizir's clever elder girl | the stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the grand-vizir's clever elder girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vizir | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vizir | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grand | punct |
| 4 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 vizir | case |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 7 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the king's clever older girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 5 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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