Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned…
So the vizier's son saved himself, yeah? Who'd he tell?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son · What happens: save, tell · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1853 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned pilaw meant for the vizier's son» 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
Sentence 1: So the vizier's son saved himself, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 saved | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizier | det |
| 3 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 vizier | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saved | nsubj |
| 6 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 saved | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saved | punct |
| 9 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 saved | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 saved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | the vizier's son | son | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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.
Sentence 2: Who'd he tell?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 'd | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 'd | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 'd | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The vizier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizier | det |
| 2 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His friend the vizier's son back home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vizier | det |
| 4 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 vizier | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 son | advmod |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 back | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The old woman at the palace gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gate | compound |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woman | 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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