Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince l…
no cap, what did the army look like coming in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, look, come in · To what, where: army
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cap | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 army | det |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 coming | mark |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 look | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 coming | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | no cap | the army | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | present | no cap | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come in | gerund | no cap not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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
a sea of bright banners
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 banners | case |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 banners | amod |
| 5 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sea | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a long column of armed soldiers on horseback with flags
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 column | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 column | amod |
| 3 | column | column | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 soldiers | case |
| 5 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 soldiers | amod |
| 6 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 column | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 horseback | case |
| 8 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soldiers | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 flags | case |
| 10 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 column | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a row of glowing torches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 row | det |
| 2 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 torches | case |
| 4 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 torches | amod |
| 5 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 row | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a thick cloud of dust
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloud | amod |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dust | case |
| 5 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloud | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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