Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 48: N…

what is a vestibule even, sounds fake

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vestibule · What happens: be, sound · To what, where: vestibule

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 vestibule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 vestibule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vestibule	det
4	vestibule	vestibule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	4 vestibule	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sounds	punct
7	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 vestibule	acl:relcl
8	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sounds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a vestibule					tree rules
2	sound	present	a vestibule not said here					fake 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

a little porch in front of the door, where guests wait before the saloon, with silver lamps and carpets

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 porch	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 porch	amod
3	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wait	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 porch	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wait	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 wait	advmod
11	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wait	nsubj
12	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 saloon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 saloon	det
15	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wait	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lamps	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 lamps	case
18	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lamps	compound
19	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wait	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 carpets	cc
21	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lamps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	a little porch in front of the door			the saloon			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before saloon=Location

Option 2

a kind of garden path leading to the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 path	case
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 path	compound
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
6	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kind	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	gerund	a kind of garden path not said here					to the gate	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to gate=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a little porch in front of the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 porch	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 porch	amod
3	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 porch	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod

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

Option 4

a roofed entrance hall inside the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hall	det
2	roofed	roof	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hall	amod
3	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hall	compound
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roof	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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