Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…
Bro, did she faint when she saw the talisman or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: faint, see · To what, where: talisman
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faint | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faint | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 faint | nsubj |
| 5 | faint | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 faint | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 talisman | det |
| 10 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 nah | cc |
| 12 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 talisman | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 faint | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past · do-support | she | Bro vocative | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | see | past | she | the talisman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talisman=Stimulus |
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 right answer
Yeah, she passed out cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 passed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 passed | compound:prt |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass out | past | she | cold property | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Yeah, sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, she just smiled at it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 smiled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smiled | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 smiled | advmod |
| 5 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smiled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | she | it | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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