Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…
Who actually killed the snake, for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: kill · To what, where: snake
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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 | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 3 killed | advmod |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 real | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 real | case |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 killed | parataxis |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the snake | actually property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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 · ← Mova's choice
The old woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The bride's brave brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bride | case |
| 4 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The master's loyal servant boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 master | case |
| 4 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | compound |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The gazelle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gazelle | det |
| 2 | gazelle | gazelle | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1773-pg641-part24/t5/