Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…

Wait, so the fish were people the whole time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fish · What happens: wait, be

This is test 2 · ★ 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 were	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 were	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	the fish				time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Kinda, I guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 guess	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 guess	nsubj
4	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	I					kinda property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Not really, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 bro	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 up	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	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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