Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

Where did the fisherman say the lake was, mate?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fisherman · What happens: say, be · To what, where: lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lake	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lake	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the fisherman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the lake and mate					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

In the middle of four hills, past the big palace and the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hills	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hills	nummod
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 middle	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 palace	punct
8	past	past	ADP	_	11 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 palace	amod
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 river	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 palace	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

In the middle of four hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hills	case
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hills	nummod
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 middle	nmod

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

Option 3

Beyond the dusty desert sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beyond	beyond	ADP	_	5 sand	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sand	det
3	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sand	amod
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sand	compound
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Under the old stone bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	5 bridge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bridge	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bridge	compound
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	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.

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