Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steal…

yo, what was the prince dreaming about, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, dream · To what, where: prince, fam

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 202 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steals the talisman and Badoura takes her husband's place» 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	_	6 prince	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 prince	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prince	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 prince	acl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 dreaming	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dreaming	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 prince	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the prince					tree rules
2	dream	gerund	the prince not said here	fam				about property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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

his mom was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mom	nmod:poss
2	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his mom					sick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his dad was dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dying	aux
4	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · progressive	his dad						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

his dad was sick, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sick	cop
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his dad					bro vocative; sick property	tree rules

Option 4

a dog ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	a dog						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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