Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

Did the Sultan get beaten at chess?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, beat · To what, where: Sultan, chess

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beaten	nsubj
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 beaten	aux:pass
5	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Did	parataxis
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 chess	case
7	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beaten	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beat	present · passive		the Sultan		chess			tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

He lost the first game

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 game	amod
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	the first game					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

Option 2

He lost the first game and then the whole match

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 game	amod
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 match	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 match	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 match	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 match	amod
10	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	the first game					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

Option 3

He won the first game

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 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 game	amod
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	He	the first game					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He lost the first game to a monkey on the ship

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 game	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 game	amod
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 monkey	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ship	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	the first game		the ship		to a monkey	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality

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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