Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 51: t…
that magician was well dodgy, right? what was his plan?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: magician · What happens: be · To what, where: plan
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 211 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, part 51: the lamp brings the bride and groom to Aladdin's room» 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 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dodgy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dodgy | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 dodgy | advmod |
| 5 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plan | punct |
| 7 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 12 plan | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 plan | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 plan | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plan | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 plan | nmod:poss |
| 12 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dodgy | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dodgy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that magician | dodgy, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | his plan | 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
Take the ring and leave him there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ring | det |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 leave | cc |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | him = he | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2
Steal the lamp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lamp | det |
| 3 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Steal | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | imperative | you not said here | the lamp | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lamp=Theme |
Option 3
Rob the shop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rob | Rob | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rob | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Get the lamp and then kill Aladdin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lamp | det |
| 3 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kill | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 kill | advmod |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 7 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | the lamp | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | Aladdin | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aladdin=Theme |
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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