Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

Why did the princess veil up in a huff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: veil up

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 176 «Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the monkey's handwriting wins the Sultan's favour, and the princess reveals his secret» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 veil	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 veil	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 veil	nsubj
5	veil	veil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 veil	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 huff	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 huff	det
9	huff	huff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 veil	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 veil	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	veil up	past · do-support	the princess					in a huff	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in huff=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

She thought the Sultan's guard had seen her face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	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 guard	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Sultan	case
6	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 face	nmod:poss
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	past · perfect · passive		the Sultan's guard					tree rules

Option 2

She reckoned a strange man had come in with the captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 reckoned	parataxis
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 captain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 captain	det
11	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	She						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	come in	past · perfect	a strange man					with the captain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She reckoned a man was there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 man	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	She	a man					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Attribute
2	is	past	a man not said here					there property	tree rules

Option 4

She heard a noise outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	She	a noise				outside property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=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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