Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Gulizar, part 37: a poisoned…

How'd that swing work, was it dead cool or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, swing work · What happens: swing, work, be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 work	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 work	nsubj
4	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 work	compound
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cool	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cool	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cool	nsubj
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cool	amod
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cool	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	swing	infinitive			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	work	would	that		tree rules
3	is	past	swing work	cool property	tree rules

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

Took you up over walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Took	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Took	compound:prt
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 walls	case
5	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past			you	walls			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination

Option 2

Carried you down the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Carried	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Carried	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry down	past			you				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary river=Value

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Took you wherever you wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Took	obj
3	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wanted	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Took	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past			you				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
2	want	past	you					wherever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Flew really fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past						fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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