Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…

What even was in the little box, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: little box

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 215 «Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the greedy narrator takes more camels and begs for the magic ointment» 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	even	even	ADV	_	7 box	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 box	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 box	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 box	amod
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the little box and fam			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 · ← Mova's choice

Some sort of sweet-smelling potion, kinda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 smelling	mark
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smelling	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sweet	punct
6	smelling	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sort	acl
7	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smelling	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sort	punct
9	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	2 sort	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund	some sort not said here	potion					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer potion=Stimulus

Option 2

A tiny box of special magic ointment that makes you see all the buried gold in the world

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 ointment	case
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ointment	amod
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ointment	amod
7	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ointment	acl:relcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 makes	obj
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 gold	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gold	det
14	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 gold	amod
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	special magic ointment	you		tree rules
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	all buried gold	the world	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus
3	bury	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some special ointment, like a magic one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 ointment	det
2	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ointment	amod
3	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 one	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ointment	appos

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

Option 4

Some kind of magic ointment that you rub on your eyes to see stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ointment	case
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ointment	amod
5	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 rub	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 rub	nsubj
8	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rub	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rub	advcl
14	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	present	you	some kind of magic ointment		your eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme on eye=Destination
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here	stuff					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stuff=Stimulus

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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