Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator…

wait, what did the genie threaten to turn him into?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, genie · What happens: wait, threaten, turn · To what, where: genie

This is test 8 · ★ 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 threaten	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 genie	det
6	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 turn	mark
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 threaten	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turn	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	9 turn	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	threaten	past · do-support	the genie		tree rules
3	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	the genie not said here	genie	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=Result

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 snake or a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 horse	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snake	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a dog, an ass, a lion or a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ass	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ass	det
5	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lion	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 bird	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lion	conj

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

Option 3

a donkey or a wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 donkey	det
2	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 wolf	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 donkey	conj

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

Option 4

a dog, an ass, a lion or a bird, and then throw him into the sea

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ass	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ass	det
5	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lion	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dog	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 bird	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lion	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 throw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 throw	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 throw	advmod
15	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 throw	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	infinitive	a dog and a ass and a lion or a bird	bird			then	into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into sea=Result

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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