Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badou…
Yo, so the king's kid got locked in a tower just cos he said no to getting wed, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: lock, say, get, innit · To what, where: kid, tower, no · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 197 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura, part 37: the prince refuses to marry and is locked in a tower» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 9 locked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 locked | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kid | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 locked | aux:pass |
| 9 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tower | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tower | det |
| 12 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 locked | obl |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 14 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 16 said | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 locked | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 said | obj |
| 18 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 getting | mark |
| 19 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 20 | wed | wed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 getting | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 innit | punct |
| 22 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 locked | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 locked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past · passive | the king's kid | a tower | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | kid | no | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | kid not said here | wed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | innit | infinitive | 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
Yeah, he was proper mad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 mad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mad | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | cop |
| 5 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 6 mad | advmod |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | mad, properly property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, he went mental and kicked off at the guards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kicked | cc |
| 7 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 kicked | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 guards | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guards | det |
| 11 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kick off | participle | he not said here | at the guards | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at guard=Patient |
Option 3
Nah, he was furious
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 furious | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 furious | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 furious | cop |
| 5 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | furious property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, bruv, the prince was well chill about it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bruv | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bruv | punct |
| 3 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bruv | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chill | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chill | cop |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 chill | advmod |
| 9 | chill | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 chill | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bruv | about it; chill, well property | tree rules |
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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