Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

Ngl, what did the boy want to eat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, boy · What happens: do, want, eat

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the boy	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	vn eat-39.1-1 «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

Roast duck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 duck	compound
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Figs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A melon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Pie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pie	pie	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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