Test 9 · ★ · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…
Was the bro allowed to chat at the palace, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be, allow, chat · To what, where: bro, palace
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1772 «Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sultan's favour and dresses its master in fine clothes» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bro | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bro | det |
| 3 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 chat | mark |
| 6 | chat | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nah | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 nah | cc |
| 12 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 allowed | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bro | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | allow | participle · passive | the bro | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | chat speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bro not said here | the palace | vn chit_chat-37.6 «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
nah, only soldiers talk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 talk | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 soldiers | advmod |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 talk | nsubj |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | soldiers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, only greetings and news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 greetings | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 greetings | advmod |
| 4 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 news | cc |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greetings | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, he could chat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 chat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chat | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 chat | aux |
| 5 | chat | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | could | he | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, he can chat to anyone he fancies, like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 chat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chat | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 chat | aux |
| 5 | chat | chat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 chat | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fancies | nsubj |
| 9 | fancies | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 11 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 chat | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | can | he | to anyone | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fancy | present | he | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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