Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

pls tell me, what was the damsel holding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, damsel · What happens: tell, hold · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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	pls	pls	INTJ	_	2 tell	discourse
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 holding	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 holding	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 holding	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 damsel	det
8	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holding	nsubj
9	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 tell	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hold	past · progressive	the damsel						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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 golden cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cup	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cup	amod
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a cane of olive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cane	det
2	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 olive	case
4	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cane	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a wand of myrtle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wand	det
2	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 myrtle	case
4	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wand	nmod

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

Option 4

a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/167-pg128-part7/t12/