Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

Whoa, what did he find under that tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whoa · What happens: find · To what, where: tree

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Whoa	Whoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Whoa	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 find	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	Whoa			that tree		Whoa vocative	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 rock with a hole in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hole	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rock	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hole	nmod

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

Option 2

a stone with some writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 writing	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 writing	det
5	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stone	nmod

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

Option 3

a dusty old box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a trapdoor with an iron ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trapdoor	det
2	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 ring	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trapdoor	nmod

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

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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