Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

ngl, what did the genius want from the fisherman?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, genius · What happens: do, want · To what, where: fisherman

This is test 4 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 genius	det
6	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 fisherman	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fisherman	det
10	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the genius			the fisherman			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

to be let go at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 let	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	aux:pass
3	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	to-infinitive · passive							tree rules
2	go	infinitive				sea			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at sea=Location

Option 2

gold from the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 lake	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lake	det
4	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gold	nmod

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

Option 3

to be let out of the brass vase at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 let	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	aux:pass
3	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	8 vase	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 vase	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vase	det
7	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vase	compound
8	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	to-infinitive · passive		the brass vase					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: vase=Theme at once=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to be let out of the vase

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 let	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	aux:pass
3	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 vase	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 vase	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vase	det
7	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let out	to-infinitive · passive		the vase					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: vase=Theme

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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