Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…
was her little sister Dinarzade proper special too?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: little sister
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sister | cop |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Dinarzade | Dinarzade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sister | appos |
| 6 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 7 special | advmod |
| 7 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 special | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | her little sister | 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
yeah, she was gifted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 gifted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gifted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gifted | aux:pass |
| 5 | gifted | gift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gift | past · passive | she | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
nope, nothing special about her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 special | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 special | nsubj |
| 4 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 special | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, she was just normal, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 normal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 normal | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 normal | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 normal | advmod |
| 6 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 6 normal | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | normal property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
nah, no special gifts, just normal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 gifts | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 gifts | det |
| 4 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gifts | amod |
| 5 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gifts | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 normal | advmod |
| 8 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gifts | amod |
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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