Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 43: a king…
the gardener sent him off on a holiday, lowkey?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gardener · What happens: send off · To what, where: him, holiday
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 holiday | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 holiday | det |
| 8 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lowkey | punct |
| 10 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holiday | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send off | past | the gardener | him = he | a holiday and lowkey | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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
nah, just a visit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 visit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 visit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 visit | det |
| 5 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, he's off to visit the king's temple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 visit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 visit | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 visit | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 off | cop |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 he | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 visit | mark |
| 7 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 temple | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 visit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | to-infinitive | he | the king's temple | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Co-Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nah, it's a public holiday where nobody works
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 holiday | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 holiday | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 holiday | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 holiday | det |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 holiday | amod |
| 7 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 works | advmod |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 works | nsubj |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 holiday | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a public holiday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | present | nobody | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, he's on break
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 break | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 break | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 break | cop |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 break | case |
| 6 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | break | 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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