Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

Yo, what was the dude's fave thing to learn, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, learn · To what, where: fave thing

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 173 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dude	det
6	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dude	case
8	fave	fave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 learn	mark
11	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thing	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 learn	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the dude's fave thing					tree rules
2	learn	to-infinitive							vn learn-14-1 «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

scribbling Arabic letters all day long, like proper calligraphy, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scribbling	scribble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 letters	compound
3	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 scribbling	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scribbling	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 scribbling	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 calligraphy	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 calligraphy	case
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 calligraphy	amod
10	calligraphy	calligraphy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scribbling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 calligraphy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scribble	gerund		Arabic letters			day	like proper calligraphy and innit; long property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

Option 2

copying out the Arabic alphabet on paper for hours, fam, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 copying	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 alphabet	det
4	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 alphabet	compound
5	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 copying	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 paper	case
7	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alphabet	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 hours	case
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 copying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hours	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cap	det
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fam	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy out	gerund		the Arabic alphabet		paper	hour		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent alphabet=Theme on paper=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

writing Arabic letters, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 letters	compound
3	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 writing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 letters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund		Arabic letters and innit					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

Option 4

learning Persian poems, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poems	amod
3	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 learning	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bro	punct
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poems	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund		Persian poems and bro					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic

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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