Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…
What was the fountain held up by, proper?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fountain · What happens: be, hold up · To what, where: fountain
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fountain | det |
| 4 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fountain | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 held | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 proper | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 by | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 held | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the fountain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hold up | participle | the fountain not said here | by proper | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: 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
Lions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Iron columns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 columns | compound |
| 2 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Golden lions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lions | amod |
| 2 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/168-pg128-part8/t11/