Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…
Yo, what was the ogress yelling to her kids?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ogress · What happens: be, yell · To what, where: ogress, kids
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 ogress | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 ogress | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ogress | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ogress | det |
| 6 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | yelling | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ogress | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 kids | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kids | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 yelling | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 ogress | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the ogress | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | yell speech: express | gerund | the ogress not said here | her kids | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kid=Recipient |
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 fine young lad for supper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lad | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lad | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lad | amod |
| 4 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 supper | case |
| 6 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lad | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a nice fat youth to munch on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 2 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youth | amod |
| 3 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 youth | compound |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 munch | mark |
| 6 | munch | munch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 youth | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 munch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | munch on | to-infinitive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
a nice fat youth to munch on before the moon rose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 2 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 youth | amod |
| 3 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 youth | compound |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 munch | mark |
| 6 | munch | munch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 youth | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 munch | compound:prt |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 rose | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rose | det |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | compound |
| 11 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 munch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | munch on | to-infinitive | before the moon rose | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
the young prince, a nice fat youth to munch on tonight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 youth | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youth | amod |
| 7 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 youth | compound |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | appos |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 munch | mark |
| 10 | munch | munch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 youth | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tonight | case |
| 12 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 munch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | munch | to-infinitive | tonight | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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