Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…
Did Noureddin fancy being king of Balsora after all that?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: fancy, be · To what, where: king
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancy | aux |
| 2 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fancy | nsubj |
| 3 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 king | cop |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancy | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Balsora | case |
| 7 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 that | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 fancy | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past · do-support | Noureddin | after that | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | king | of Balsora | tree rules |
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
Nah, he just wanted his own palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palace | amod |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wanted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | his own palace | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot palace=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he wanted to stay with the Caliph
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Caliph | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caliph | det |
| 9 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | with the Caliph | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with caliph=Location |
Option 3
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yep, he was keen to rule Balsora
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 keen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keen | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 keen | cop |
| 5 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rule | mark |
| 7 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 keen | xcomp |
| 8 | Balsora | Balsora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rule | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | keen property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rule | to-infinitive | he not said here | Balsora | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent balsora=Result |
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