Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11:…
did the Calender's uncle live in the same country as the Calender?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle · What happens: live · To what, where: same country
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 171 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11: the Calenders reveal who they are, and the First Calender begins his tale» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 uncle | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Calender | det |
| 3 | Calender | Calender | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Calender | case |
| 5 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 country | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Calender | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Calender | det |
| 13 | Calender | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing Typo=Yes | 6 live | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Calender's uncle | the same country | as the Calender | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
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
nah, the uncle lived in the capital city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 uncle | det |
| 4 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 8 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 city | compound |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the uncle | the capital city | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, it was the neighbouring country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 country | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 country | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 country | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 6 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 country | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | the neighbouring country | tree rules |
Option 3
nah, it was the same city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 city | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 city | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 city | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 city | amod |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | the same city | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, both lived in Baghdad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 3 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 4 lived | cc:preconj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Baghdad | case |
| 6 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Baghdad | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in baghdad=Location |
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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