Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman and Princess Badoura,…
Mate, who was the grand-vizir's bestie in this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: bestie, this
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bestie | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bestie | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bestie | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizir | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vizir | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grand | punct |
| 8 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bestie | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 vizir | case |
| 10 | bestie | bestie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bestie | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and the grand vizir's bestie | the grand vizir's bestie | this | 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
The prince's tutor, I guess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tutor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guess | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tutor | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 guess | nsubj |
| 7 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | present | the prince's tutor | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The king, I think, maybe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 7 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the king | maybe property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nobody, he just told Marzavan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 told | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 told | advmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | he | Marzavan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent marzavan=Recipient |
Option 4
Nobody, really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 really | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 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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