Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badou…

Was the tower like a proper dungeon with rats and chains, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tower

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tower	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tower	det
3	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 dungeon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dungeon	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dungeon	amod
7	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tower	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 rats	case
9	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dungeon	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chains	cc
11	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rats	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rats	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tower	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tower				like a proper dungeon with rats and chains and bruv	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

Nah, it was a palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 palace	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 palace	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 palace	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a palace					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, rats and chains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 rats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 chains	cc
5	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rats	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Nah, it was a cold room with a broken bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 room	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 room	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 room	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 bed	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bed	det
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bed	amod
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 room	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a cold room				with a broken bed	tree rules
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it had books and a slave, not that grim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slave	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 slave	det
8	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grim	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 grim	advmod
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 grim	nsubj
12	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	books					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient

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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