Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 48: N…
lowkey the garden looks sick, who owns it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey garden · What happens: look, own · To what, where: garden
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 garden | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looks | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 owns | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 owns | nsubj |
| 8 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looks | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 owns | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the lowkey garden | sick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | own | present | garden | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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 · ← Mova's choice
the king's brother, very rich and bored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rich | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rich | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 rich | advmod |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bored | cc |
| 9 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rich | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the Caliph himself, super rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Caliph | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 6 rich | advmod |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Caliph | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
some merchant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a rich merchant who rents it out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 merchant | amod |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 rents | nsubj |
| 5 | rents | rent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rents | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 rents | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rent out | present | a rich merchant | merchant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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