Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…
Bro, why did the king not spot the vizir's trap?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: not spot · To what, where: trap
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 166 «Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, part 6: the king doubts the vizir, then condemns the physician to death» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spot | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 spot | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spot | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spot | nsubj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 spot | advmod |
| 8 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vizir | det |
| 10 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trap | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 vizir | case |
| 12 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spot | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 spot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spot | past · do-support | the king | the vizir's trap | Bro vocative | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trap=Destination |
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 was busy with the war
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 | 3 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 busy | cop |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 war | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 war | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 busy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | with the war; busy property | tree rules |
Option 2
he was too young
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 | 4 young | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | young property | tree rules |
Option 3
he was drunk
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 | 3 drunk | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drunk | aux:pass |
| 3 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past · passive | he | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
he was naturally very weak
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 | 5 weak | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weak | cop |
| 3 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 5 weak | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 weak | advmod |
| 5 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | naturally, weak property | tree rules |
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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