Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

So the monkey's really what, according to her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: accord · To what, where: monkey

This is test 6 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 monkey	case
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
8	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 what	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 according	fixed
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 according	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund		monkey					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=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

just a monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	3 monkey	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a prince turned into a monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 prince	acl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 monkey	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle		a prince not said here				into a monkey result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into monkey=Result

Option 3

a cursed monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
2	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 monkey	amod
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a merchant turned into a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 merchant	acl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle		a merchant not said here				into a bird result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result

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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