Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17:…
what did the scorpion turn into when he was losing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: scorpion · What happens: do, turn, lose
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 177 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Second Calender, part 17: the genius is burned, and the third Calender begins his tale» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 scorpion | det |
| 4 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 10 losing | mark |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 losing | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 losing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 losing | aux |
| 10 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 turn | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | turn | present | the scorpion | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lose | past · progressive | scorpion | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
an eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a huge bird that flew up over the palace walls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bird | acl:relcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 flew | compound:prt |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 walls | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walls | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walls | compound |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | a huge bird | the palace walls | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Location |
Option 3
a sparrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sparrow | det |
| 2 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a great black eagle with iron talons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 talons | case |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 talons | compound |
| 7 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eagle | nmod |
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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