Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura,…
Bro, was Torf a tiny village or a big city?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Torf · What happens: be · To what, where: tiny village
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 200 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura, part 40: Marzavan's ship sinks near the palace, and he gives the sick prince new hope» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 village | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 village | cop |
| 4 | Torf | Torf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 village | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 village | amod |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 city | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 city | amod |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 village | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 village | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Torf | a tiny village or a big city | Bro vocative | 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
A dusty desert oasis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 oasis | det |
| 2 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 oasis | amod |
| 3 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oasis | compound |
| 4 | oasis | oasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A large, busy seaport
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 seaport | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seaport | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 large | punct |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seaport | amod |
| 5 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A large, busy seaport full of merchants from many lands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 seaport | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seaport | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 large | punct |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seaport | amod |
| 5 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seaport | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 merchants | case |
| 8 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 lands | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lands | amod |
| 11 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 merchants | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A small town near the desert with only a few houses left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 town | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 town | amod |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 desert | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 desert | det |
| 6 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 town | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 houses | case |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 houses | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 houses | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 houses | amod |
| 11 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 town | nmod |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 houses | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | a few houses not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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