Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

Lol, what was he missing to cut it open?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: miss, cut, open · To what, where: it

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 missing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 missing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missing	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 missing	nsubj
6	missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cut	mark
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 missing	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cut	obj
10	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cut	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 missing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	miss	past · progressive	he		tree rules
2	cut	to-infinitive	he not said here	it	tree rules
3	open	infinitive	he not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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

A pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A sharp silver knife for the fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	compound
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 fruit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fruit	det
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	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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