Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…
Who gets beaten every single day in this story?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: beat
This is test 14 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 beaten | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beaten | aux:pass |
| 3 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beaten | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beaten | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 beaten | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present · passive | day | in this story | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in story=Topic |
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 fisherman, by the Sultan
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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fisherman | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Sultan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fisherman | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The slave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 slave | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The young king, by the enchantress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 enchantress | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 enchantress | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 enchantress | det |
| 7 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The black slave, by his master
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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 master | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 master | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slave | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/168-pg128-part8/t14/