Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

So he turns the narrator into what, like a monkey?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: turn · To what, where: narrator

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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	_	3 turns	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 turns	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 monkey	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	he	the narrator					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent narrator=Theme into what=Trajectory

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

No, a turtle that lives in the sea near the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 turtle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turtle	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 turtle	det
4	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lives	nsubj
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turtle	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	obl
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 ship	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ship	det
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a turtle			the sea		near the ship	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a monkey with a golden collar and a silver bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 monkey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 collar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 collar	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 collar	amod
8	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monkey	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bell	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bell	det
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bell	compound
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collar	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, a monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 monkey	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, a parrot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 parrot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 parrot	det
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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