Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…
Wait, which words wrecked the whole trip for him?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, wreck · To what, where: whole trip
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrecked | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wrecked | nsubj |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrecked | nsubj |
| 5 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trip | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trip | amod |
| 8 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrecked | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wrecked | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wreck | past | the whole trip | for him = he | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Patient |
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
There is no god but Allah, praise be to Him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 god | det |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 Allah | cc |
| 6 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 god | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 praise | punct |
| 8 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | conj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Him | cop |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Him | case |
| 11 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 god | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | no god but Allah and praise | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | no god but Allah and praise not said here | to Allah | tree rules |
Option 2
Allah be praised for this fine day at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 praised | aux:pass |
| 3 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | infinitive · passive | Allah | day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Praise the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Praise | praise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Praise | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | imperative | you not said here | the sea | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Allah be praised
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 praised | aux:pass |
| 3 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | infinitive · passive | Allah | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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