Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…
Bro, why did the envious dude even wanna drop the dervish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drop · To what, where: dervish
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drop | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 drop | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drop | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dude | det |
| 6 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dude | amod |
| 7 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 drop | advmod |
| 9 | wanna | wanna | X | Foreign=Yes | 10 drop | dep |
| 10 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bro | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dervish | det |
| 12 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drop | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past · do-support | the dervish | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Theme |
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
Greed, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bro | punct |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Greed | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
He was super envious
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 envious | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 envious | cop |
| 3 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 envious | advmod |
| 4 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | envious, super property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was lowkey jealous
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jealous | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jealous | cop |
| 3 | lowkey | lowkey | ADV | _ | 4 jealous | advmod |
| 4 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | jealous, lowkey property | tree rules |
Option 4
Cause he wanted the dervish's whole robe and the monastery cell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dervish | det |
| 5 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 robe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dervish | case |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 robe | amod |
| 8 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cell | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cell | det |
| 11 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cell | compound |
| 12 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 robe | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Cause | the dervish's whole robe and the monastery cell | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot robe=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/175-pg128-part15/t2/