Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…
The envious guy got gold and carts after, right? Why though?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: envious guy · What happens: get · To what, where: gold
This is test 9 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: The envious guy got gold and carts after, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guy | det |
| 2 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carts | cc |
| 7 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gold | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the envious guy | gold and carts | after property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=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.
Sentence 2: Why though?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | though | though | ADV | _ | 1 Why | advmod |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Sultan forgave him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forgave | nsubj |
| 3 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | past | the Sultan | him = he | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2
The dervish asked for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dervish | det |
| 2 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the dervish | for it | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
He paid the Sultan's debts
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 | 2 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sultan | det |
| 4 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 debts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Sultan | case |
| 6 | debts | debt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 paid | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | He | the Sultan's debts | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |
Option 4
He begged
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 | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | He | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
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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