Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…
Ngl, how long was the lady stuck in that house?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: be · To what, where: house
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 195 «Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar takes revenge, then is robbed and banished; Schacabac meets a Barmecide» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuck | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 stuck | advmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stuck | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | nsubj |
| 8 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Ngl | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lady | that house | long, stuck 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
since she was a kid, honest, no lie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | since | since | ADP | _ | 5 kid | case |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kid | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kid | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 honest | punct |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kid | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 lie | det |
| 10 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kid | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | since a kid and no lie | tree rules |
Option 2
four years, lowkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lowkey | punct |
| 4 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 years | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
three years, honest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 honest | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 years | punct |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
three whole years, honest, no lie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 honest | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 years | punct |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lie | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lie | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 lie | det |
| 8 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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