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

Why was the lady with the veil so mysterious?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 veil	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 veil	det
7	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	nmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 mysterious	advmod
9	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 veil	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lady with the veil					why property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Because she was basically the enchantress in disguise all along, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 enchantress	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 enchantress	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enchantress	cop
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 enchantress	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 enchantress	det
6	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 disguise	case
8	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enchantress	nmod
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 along	advmod
10	along	along	ADV	_	8 disguise	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enchantress	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	the enchantress		disguise		basically property	tree rules

Option 2

She was hiding stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hiding	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	She	stuff					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was a secret, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 secret	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lowkey	punct
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 secret	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a secret and lowkey					tree rules

Option 4

Cause she was actually a queen hiding from her enemies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	6 queen	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 queen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 queen	cop
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 queen	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 queen	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 enemies	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 enemies	nmod:poss
10	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a queen				actually property	tree rules
2	hide	gerund	a queen not said here			her enemies			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from enemy=Beneficiary

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