Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns th…

Sus, what's guarding the palm trees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus · What happens: guard · To what, where: palm trees

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1823 «Indian Fairy Tales, Punchkin, part 7: the Prince learns the Magician's secret and sets out for the parrot» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 guarding	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 guarding	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 guarding	aux
5	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sus	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
7	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guarding	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present · progressive	Sus	the palm trees					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Beneficiary

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

Thousands of snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 snakes	case
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod

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

Option 2

Thousands of genii who kill anyone who comes near the palm trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kill	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 genii	case
3	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 kill	nsubj
5	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 kill	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 anyone	acl:relcl
9	near	near	ADP	_	12 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
11	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trees	compound
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Thousands of genii	anyone					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme
2	come	present				the palm trees			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near tree=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Thousands of genii

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 genii	case
3	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod

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

Option 4

Thousands of genii with swords who guard the palace gate all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 genii	case
3	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Thousands	nmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 swords	case
5	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 genii	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 guard	nsubj
7	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swords	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gate	compound
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guard	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guard	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	swords	the palace gate			night		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

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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