Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king…
the gardener's cottage is in some town full of idolaters?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cottage · What happens: be · To what, where: town
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 203 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king makes a stranger his heir, and a gardener's treasure is found» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 gardener | case |
| 4 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 town | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 town | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 idolaters | case |
| 11 | idolaters | idolater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 town | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the gardener's cottage | some town | 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
nah, it's near the sea and the markets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 sea | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sea | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sea | cop |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 markets | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 markets | det |
| 10 | markets | market | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sea | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | the sea and the markets | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, but the town is far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 away | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 away | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 away | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 away | cop |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the town | away, far property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, like statues and stuff, bruh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 statues | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 statues | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 statues | case |
| 4 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stuff | cc |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 statues | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 statues | punct |
| 8 | bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 4 statues | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nah, it's a village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 village | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 village | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 village | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a village | tree rules |
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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