Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genie, part 5: the j…

so the first thing out of the jar is what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first thing · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	10 what	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 jar	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 jar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jar	det
8	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	cop
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the first thing out the jar						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

a thick cloud of smoke that spread over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloud	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloud	amod
3	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 smoke	case
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cloud	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 spread	nsubj
7	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past	a thick cloud of smoke			the sea			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location
2	cloud			smoke					nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

thick smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 smoke	amod
2	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a thick black smoke rising from the jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 smoke	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smoke	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smoke	amod
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 smoke	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 jar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jar	det
8	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rising	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund	a thick black smoke not said here			the jar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from jar=Initial_Location

Option 4

grey steam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 steam	amod
2	steam	steam	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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