Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Books, The Arabian Nights, part 1: a clever girl off…
wait, the sultan's brother got Great Tartary, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, brother · What happens: wait, get · To what, where: Great Tartary
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sultan | det |
| 4 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 sultan | case |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 8 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Tartary | amod |
| 9 | Tartary | Tartary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 11 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 1 wait | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | 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 | get | past | the sultan's brother | Great Tartary | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tartary=Stimulus |
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, he was made the ruler
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ruler | det |
| 7 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | he | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary ruler=Product |
Option 2
yeah, he did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
nah, he got nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he got made king of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 king | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | he | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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