Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

So who's the lady, like what's her deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: be · To what, where: lady, deal

This is test 10 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 lady	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lady	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lady	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deal	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 deal	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 deal	cop
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 deal	nmod:poss
11	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lady	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the lady and her deal					tree rules
2	is a	present	the lady and her deal	her deal					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 · ← Mova's choice

a lady, kinda sad, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lady	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lady	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 lady	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a princess stuck down there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 princess	acl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 stuck	compound:prt
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick down	participle		a princess not said here		there			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

some servant girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 servant	nsubj
2	servant	servant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 servant	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	servant	present	some	girl					tree rules

Option 4

some girl who got lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lost	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 girl	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		some girl					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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