Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11:…
ok so the blind lads aren't actually brothers by blood, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blind lads · What happens: not be · To what, where: brothers
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 9 brothers | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 brothers | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lads | det |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lads | amod |
| 5 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brothers | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brothers | cop |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 brothers | advmod |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 brothers | advmod |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brothers | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 yeah | punct |
| 13 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 brothers | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 brothers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the blind lads | brothers | by blood; actually 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
yeah, they're brothers by how they live, not by blood or by birth at all
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 brothers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brothers | cop |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 live | nsubj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 live | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 live | nsubj |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blood | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 blood | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 birth | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 birth | case |
| 16 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blood | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 blood | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | brothers | by blood at all or birth | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by blood=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, they're just brothers by how they live
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 brothers | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brothers | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 brothers | advmod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 live | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 live | nsubj |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brothers | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | brothers = brother | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
nah, they share the same blood and father
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 share | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 share | nsubj |
| 4 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blood | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blood | amod |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 share | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 father | cc |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blood | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | they | the same blood and father | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
nah, they're actually brothers by blood but they dress differently in the palace
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 11 dress | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brothers | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brothers | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 brothers | advmod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 nah | appos |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 blood | case |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brothers | nmod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 dress | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dress | nsubj |
| 11 | dress | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 11 dress | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dress | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | brothers | by blood; actually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dress | present | brothers = brother | the palace | differently property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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