Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…
Wait, what did the slaves dig with?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, slaves · What happens: wait, dig
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | _ | 7 dig | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 dig | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dig | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 slaves | det |
| 6 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dig | nsubj |
| 7 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 dig | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | 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 | dig | past · do-support | the slaves | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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
Spades, pickaxes, and a large iron chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pickaxes | punct |
| 3 | pickaxes | pickax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Spades | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chest | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chest | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chest | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chest | amod |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chest | compound |
| 9 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spades | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ropes and lanterns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lanterns | cc |
| 3 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ropes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Spades and pickaxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pickaxes | cc |
| 3 | pickaxes | pickax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Spades | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Torches, spades, and a bag of coins from the ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spades | punct |
| 3 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Torches | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bag | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bag | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bag | det |
| 7 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Torches | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 coins | case |
| 9 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bag | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 ship | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ship | det |
| 12 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coins | nmod |
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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