Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned…
What's the prince's sidekick called, like, his mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, call · To what, where: sidekick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 sidekick | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sidekick | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sidekick | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 prince | case |
| 6 | sidekick | sidekick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sidekick | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 called | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mate | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sidekick | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sidekick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the prince's sidekick and his mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | the prince's sidekick and his mate not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
His mate, bruv
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 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bruv | punct |
| 4 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mate | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The vizier's son who goes everywhere with him, bruv
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 | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vizier | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 7 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 goes | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 goes | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the vizier's son | with him = he; everywhere property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The vizier's son, bruv
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 | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vizier | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His best mate, yeah
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 | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 mate | amod |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 5 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
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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