Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 53: Aladdin is spared, and h…
Did the palace really zoom back to China?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: palace · What happens: zoom
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 zoom | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zoom | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 zoom | advmod |
| 5 | zoom | zoom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 zoom | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 China | case |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 back | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 zoom | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zoom | past · do-support | the palace | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
nah, it stayed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | it | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, it was back in a flash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 back | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 back | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 back | cop |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 flash | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flash | det |
| 8 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | a flash | back property | tree rules |
Option 3
yeah, it did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
yeah, it went back slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | it | slowly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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