Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince l…
lowkey the city just opened the gates huh, why'd they give up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey city, gates · What happens: open, give up · To what, where: gates
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 172 «Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince loses his eye, his father's throne is taken, and the lovers' tomb is found» 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 city | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 opened | advmod |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gates | det |
| 7 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | huh | huh | INTJ | _ | 5 opened | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 give | advmod |
| 11 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 opened | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 give | compound:prt |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the lowkey city | the gates | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give up | would | gates = gate | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
the vizir had bribed the commander with a great fortune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizir | det |
| 2 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bribed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bribed | aux |
| 4 | bribed | bribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 commander | det |
| 6 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bribed | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fortune | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fortune | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fortune | amod |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commander | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bribe | past · perfect · passive | the vizir | tree rules |
Option 2
the king had surrendered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surrendered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surrendered | aux |
| 4 | surrendered | surrender | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surrender | past · perfect | the king | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
the walls were broken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 walls | det |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux:pass |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | the walls | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
resistance was useless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 useless | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 useless | cop |
| 3 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | resistance | useless property | tree rules |
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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