Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura,…
So the dude who slept beside her was a ghost, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: sleep, be · To what, where: ghost
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 ghost | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dude | det |
| 3 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ghost | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 slept | nsubj |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dude | acl:relcl |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slept | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ghost | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ghost | det |
| 10 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ghost | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 ghost | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 ghost | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the dude | beside her = she | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the dude | a ghost | 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, it was a demon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 demon | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 demon | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 demon | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 demon | det |
| 6 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a demon | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, a ghost who vanished at dawn every single night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ghost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ghost | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ghost | det |
| 4 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 vanished | nsubj |
| 6 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ghost | acl:relcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 dawn | case |
| 8 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vanished | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 night | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 night | amod |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vanished | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | a ghost | dawn; night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
No, it was a genie guy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 guy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 guy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 guy | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guy | det |
| 6 | genie | genie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guy | compound |
| 7 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a genie guy | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, she never saw his face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | she | his face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
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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