Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

Yo, who's the one cooking them fish in the Sultan's room, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, cook, innit · To what, where: one, them, room

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 one	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	cooking	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 one	acl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cooking	obj
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cooking	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sultan	det
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 room	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Sultan	case
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cooking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 one	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		the one		tree rules
2	cook	gerund	the one not said here	them = they	the Sultan's room	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary fish=Product
3	innit	infinitive				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 black slave and the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slave	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slave	amod
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fish	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slave	conj

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

Option 2

The fisherman's wife and the grand-vizir in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fisherman	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 vizir	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vizir	det
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vizir	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grand	punct
9	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 kitchen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vizir	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Sultan and the grand-vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vizir	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vizir	det
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vizir	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grand	punct
7	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sultan	conj

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

Option 4

The Sultan and the grand-vizir and the black slave both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vizir	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vizir	det
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 vizir	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grand	punct
7	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sultan	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slave	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 slave	det
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 slave	amod
11	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vizir	conj
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Sultan	conj

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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