Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the j…
is the genie ready to be nice or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: genie · What happens: be
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 165 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the jar is opened and a furious genie appears» 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 genie | det |
| 3 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 nice | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nice | cop |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 nah | cc |
| 9 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 ready | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the genie | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the genie not said here | nice property | 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
he wants to hurt the fisherman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hurt | mark |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fisherman | det |
| 6 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | the fisherman | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fisherman=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
he threatens to kill the fisherman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threatens | nsubj |
| 2 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 kill | mark |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 threatens | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fisherman | det |
| 6 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | present | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | the fisherman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Theme |
Option 3
no, he is angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 angry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | angry property | tree rules |
Option 4
he plans to harm the fisherman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 plans | nsubj |
| 2 | plans | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 harm | mark |
| 4 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 plans | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fisherman | det |
| 6 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 harm | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | present | he | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | harm not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | the fisherman | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fisherman=Experiencer |
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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