Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the…

Wait, who even laughed at him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, laugh

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 212 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the princess into giving up the lamp, and the palace vanishes to Africa» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laughed	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 laughed	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	past						at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beggar	det
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Some children playing in the dusty square outside the palace gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 children	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 square	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 square	det
6	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 square	amod
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obl
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gate	compound
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 square	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	some children not said here			the dusty square outside the palace gate			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A slave who was sweeping the marble steps of the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 slave	det
2	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sweeping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sweeping	aux
5	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 slave	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 steps	det
7	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 steps	compound
8	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sweeping	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 steps	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	past · progressive	a slave	the marble steps of the palace					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory
2	step			the palace					nom step «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A slave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 slave	det
2	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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