Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…
Wasn't the prince caught asleep or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: not be
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 204 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | cop |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 caught | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 caught | xcomp |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 nah | cc |
| 8 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 caught | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the prince | asleep, catch property | 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
Yeah, he slept through the whole night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 slept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slept | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 night | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | he | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, he was wide awake, sitting by the window, when the captain's men came shouting
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 awake | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 awake | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awake | cop |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 6 awake | advmod |
| 6 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sitting | punct |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 awake | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 captain | det |
| 15 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 captain | case |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 awake | conj |
| 19 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 came | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | awake, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | he not said here | by the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the captain's men | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | gerund | the captain's men not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, he was awake and heard a loud knock at the garden door before anyone came
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 awake | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awake | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | cop |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knock | det |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knock | amod |
| 10 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | compound |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | he not said here | a loud knock | the garden door | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | come | past | anyone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he was awake and heard a knock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 awake | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awake | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | cop |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 knock | det |
| 9 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | he not said here | a knock | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus |
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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