Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess rev…

Was the king into smart girls or pretty girls?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 205 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess reveals herself, and the prince is made king and married» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 girls	case
5	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girls	amod
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Was	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 girls	cc
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girls	amod
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 girls	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the king					into smart girls or pretty girls	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Pretty girls, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 girls	amod
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 girls	punct
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 girls	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Smart and pretty both, and he loved wit above all things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smart	Smart	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 loved	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 both	cc
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 both	advmod
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Smart	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 loved	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 loved	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loved	nsubj
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	wit	wit	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 loved	advmod
10	above	above	ADP	_	12 things	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 things	det
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	Smart			all things		wit property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Smart and pretty both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smart	Smart	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pretty	cc
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	1 Smart	conj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Smart	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He liked smart and pretty girls and kept both kinds at court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girls	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pretty	cc
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smart	conj
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 liked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 liked	conj
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 kinds	det
10	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 court	case
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	He	smart girls					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme
2	keep	past	He not said here	both kinds		court			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kind=Theme at court=Location

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/205-pg128-part45/t10/