Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…

Wait, what was the water boiled with?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, boil · To what, where: water

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 water	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 water	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 water	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 water	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 boiled	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the water	tree rules
3	boil	participle		the water not said here	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Some herbs, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 herbs	det
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 herbs	conj

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

Option 2

A secret spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spell	amod
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Magic words, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cap	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod

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

Option 4

Oil, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fr	punct
3	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Oil	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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