Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…
Lol, what was her big excuse for looking a bit rough?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big excuse · What happens: be, look · To what, where: big excuse
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 excuse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 excuse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 excuse | cop |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 excuse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 excuse | amod |
| 7 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 excuse | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rough | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 excuse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | her big excuse | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | her big excuse not said here | rough property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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 bumpy road trip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trip | det |
| 2 | bumpy | bumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trip | amod |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trip | compound |
| 4 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Bad sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sleep | amod |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The long journey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 journey | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 journey | amod |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Her long camel ride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ride | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ride | amod |
| 3 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ride | compound |
| 4 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | Her = she | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/206-pg128-part46/t6/