Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…
ok, what did the fish say when the damsel asked?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish, damsel · What happens: do, say, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 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 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 asked | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 damsel | det |
| 10 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 say | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | participle | the damsel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
"Stay, stay"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | conj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
"Yes, yes, we will obey you all"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 obey | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 obey | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 obey | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 obey | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 obey | aux |
| 8 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 obey | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 obey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | future | we | you | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
"Yes, yes"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 yes | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"Yes, yes, we are ready now"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 ready | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 ready | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | cop |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 ready | advmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | we | now | ready 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/167-pg128-part7/t8/