Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

What did the magician chuck on the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: magician chuck, fire

This is test 12 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chuck	det
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chuck	compound
5	chuck	chuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the magician chuck		the fire			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=Eventuality

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 pinch of salt and some words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pinch	det
2	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 salt	case
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pinch	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 words	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pinch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch			salt					nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

a powder, plus some magic words spoken very quickly over the flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 powder	det
2	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spoken	punct
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	8 spoken	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 words	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spoken	nsubj:pass
8	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 powder	acl:relcl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 quickly	advmod
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 spoken	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 flames	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flames	det
13	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spoken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	participle · passive	a powder not said here	some magic words		the flames		quickly property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a powder, plus some magic words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 powder	det
2	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 words	punct
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	7 words	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 words	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 powder	conj

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

Option 4

a handful of strange powder mixed with a chant and a bowl of red oil

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mixed	obl:unmarked
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 powder	case
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 powder	amod
5	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	nmod
6	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 chant	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chant	det
9	chant	chant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mixed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bowl	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bowl	det
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chant	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 oil	case
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 oil	amod
15	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bowl	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		a handful of strange powder				with a chant and a bowl of red oil	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with chant=Co-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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