Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

Real talk, what was the boy's dad scared of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: dad

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 178 «Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea, then frees a boy from an underground tomb» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dad	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 dad	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dad	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dad	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 boy	case
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dad	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 scared	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Real talk	the boy's dad					tree rules

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

A prophecy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 prophecy	det
2	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

A war at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 war	det
2	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 sea	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 war	nmod

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

Option 4

Storms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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