Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 48: N…
so the king is mad and wants Noureddin's house flattened, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king, house · What happens: be, want, flatten
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 208 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 48: Noureddin flees to Bagdad, and an old doorkeeper is tempted into drinking wine in the Caliph's pavilion» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 mad | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mad | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | cop |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wants | cc |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | conj |
| 8 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Noureddin | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flattened | nsubj |
| 11 | flattened | flatten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wants | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
| 13 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 5 mad | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the king | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present | the king not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flatten | past | Noureddin's house | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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
nope, just a few guys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 6 guys | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 guys | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 guys | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guys | amod |
| 6 | guys | guy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, ten guys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 guys | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 guys | nummod |
| 4 | guys | guy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nope, they just wanted to arrest him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 arrest | mark |
| 7 | arrest | arrest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 arrest | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | they | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | arrest not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | him = he | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yup, forty guys, total wreck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guys | punct |
| 3 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 guys | nummod |
| 4 | guys | guy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 yup | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wreck | punct |
| 6 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wreck | amod |
| 7 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 yup | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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