Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 53: Aladdin is spared, and h…

What was the princess moaning about at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, moan

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 213 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 53: Aladdin is spared, and his palace flies home» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 princess	acl
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 moaning	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moaning	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the princess						tree rules
2	moan	gerund	the princess not said here				at the end	about property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at end=Stimulus

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

the palace was gone again today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 palace	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 gone	advmod
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the palace				again; today	gone property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

that the palace had been taken away again and no roc's egg hung anywhere in the hall of four-and-twenty windows

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 taken	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 taken	aux:pass
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 taken	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 taken	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hung	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 roc	det
11	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 egg	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 roc	case
13	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	nsubj
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	conj
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 hung	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hall	det
18	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 four	case
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 hall	nmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 four	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 twenty	cc
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 windows	nummod
25	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past · perfect · passive		the palace			again	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	hang	past	no roc's egg	twenty windows		the hall of four		anywhere property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no roc's egg hanging from the dome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 roc	det
2	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 egg	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 roc	case
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 egg	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 dome	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dome	det
8	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	no roc's egg not said here			the dome			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

no roc's egg hanging from the dome, and the magician's brother had vanished without a trace

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 roc	det
2	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 egg	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 roc	case
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vanished	nsubj
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 egg	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 dome	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dome	det
8	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hanging	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 vanished	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 vanished	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 magician	det
12	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brother	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 magician	case
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vanished	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 vanished	aux
16	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 trace	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 trace	det
19	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	no roc's egg not said here			the dome			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vanish	past · perfect	no roc's egg					without a trace	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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