Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…
how did the king die, fr?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king die · What happens: be
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 how | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 die | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | compound |
| 5 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 how | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fr | punct |
| 7 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 how | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king die and fr | how property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
poison on the pages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 pages | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pages | det |
| 4 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 poison | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
poison smeared on the book's pages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 poison | acl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 pages | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pages | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 book | case |
| 7 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smeared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smear | participle | poison not said here | the book's pages | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on page=Destination | ||||
| 2 | page | the book | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
poison on the pages of his golden book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 pages | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pages | det |
| 4 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 poison | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 book | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 book | nmod:poss |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 book | amod |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pages | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | page | his golden book | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
by the wicked book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 book | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 book | amod |
| 4 | book | book | 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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