Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

What was the palace made of, wicked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: palace

This is test 10 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 palace	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 palace	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 palace	acl
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wicked	punct
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 palace	amod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 palace	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the palace					tree rules
2	make	participle		the palace not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

Plain wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wood	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Green glass tiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tiles	amod
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tiles	compound
3	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Black polished marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 polished	nsubj
2	polished	polish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 polished	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	past	Black	marble					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent marble=Destination

Option 4

White carved stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carved	nsubj
2	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past	White	stone					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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