Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steal…
no cap, who was it that asked the king for the trip?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: cap, king
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 it | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 it | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 it | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 trip | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trip | det |
| 13 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cap | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | no cap | the king | for the trip | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
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 king's youngest son
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 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the vizier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vizier | det |
| 2 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the queen's cousin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 queen | case |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/202-pg128-part42/t2/