Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…
Who was the old lady who taught the princess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: be, teach · To what, where: old lady, princess
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lady | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 taught | nsubj |
| 7 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taught | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | the old lady | the princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |
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
a powerful magician from the far mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 2 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 magician | amod |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountains | amod |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 magician | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a magician who lived in the palace gardens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 magician | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gardens | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gardens | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gardens | compound |
| 8 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a magician | the palace gardens | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a magician, no joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 joke | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 joke | det |
| 5 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 magician | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a travelling trader
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trader | det |
| 2 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trader | compound |
| 3 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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