Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

Was the palace under the ground or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: palace, ground

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 palace	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 palace	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 ground	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 palace	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the palace		the ground			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

nah, it was on top of the ground, but hidden by a huge wall of trees

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 top	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 top	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 top	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 top	case
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hidden	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hidden	cc
12	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 top	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 wall	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wall	det
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wall	amod
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hidden	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 trees	case
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			top		of the ground	tree rules
2	hide	participle						by a huge wall of trees	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wall=Location

Option 2

nah, it was on a hill top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 top	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 top	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 top	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 top	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	compound
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			a hill top			tree rules

Option 3

yeah, deep under the earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 deep	punct
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deep	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it was under the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 ground	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ground	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ground	cop
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			the ground			tree rules

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