Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 49: t…
what do you call those big hanging lights full of candles?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: call · To what, where: big hanging lights · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 209 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 49: the Caliph disguised as a fisherman» 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 call | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 lights | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lights | amod |
| 7 | hanging | hanging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lights | compound |
| 8 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obj |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lights | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 candles | case |
| 11 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · do-support | you | that big hanging lights | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme light=Result |
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 right answer
lustres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lustres | lustre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Braziers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Braziers | brazier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Chandeliers of hanging glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chandeliers | chandelier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 3 hanging | mark |
| 3 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Chandeliers | acl |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hanging | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | Chandeliers not said here | glass | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |
Option 4
Great hanging brass candelabras
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Great | xcomp |
| 3 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 candelabras | compound |
| 4 | candelabras | candelabra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hanging | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | brass candelabras | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candelabra=Patient |
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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