Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator…

wait, did the princess actually know the genius before?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, princess · What happens: wait, know · To what, where: genius

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 174 «Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator smashes the talisman, and the genius catches him» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 genius	det
9	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 know	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past · do-support	the princess	the genius				actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer genius=Stimulus

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

yeah, she knew him well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	she	him = he				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

nah, she only heard his name once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	she	his name				once property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
2	name		his = he						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

yeah, they were friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 friends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 friends	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 friends	cop
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she said she never saw him before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 saw	advmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	obj
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not see	past	she	him = he				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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