Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

Where did the uncle take Aladdin for a picnic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle · What happens: take · To what, where: Aladdin

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 210 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy's plot nearly kills Noureddin, but the vizir arrives in time» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 take	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 uncle	det
4	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 picnic	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 picnic	det
9	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	the uncle	Aladdin				for a picnic	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent aladdin=Theme for picnic=Beneficiary

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

some beautiful gardens outside the city gates, where they sat under the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 gardens	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gardens	amod
3	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sat	nsubj
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	7 gates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gates	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gates	compound
7	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gardens	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sat	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 trees	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trees	det
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	some beautiful gardens outside the city gates			the trees			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location

Option 2

a long walk to the royal palace gardens and a fountain outside the gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 walk	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 walk	amod
3	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 gardens	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gardens	det
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gardens	amod
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gardens	compound
8	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fountain	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fountain	det
11	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	conj
12	outside	outside	ADP	_	14 gates	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gates	det
14	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nmod

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

Option 3

some lovely orchards past the city walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 orchards	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 orchards	amod
3	orchards	orchard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	7 walls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	compound
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 orchards	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

some beautiful gardens outside the gates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 gardens	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gardens	amod
3	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 gates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gates	det
6	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gardens	nmod

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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