Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Dervish and the Treasure, part 55: the…
Was the rock thing like a proper magic door or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: rock thing
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | compound |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 7 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 door | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the rock thing | like a proper magic door the rock thing | 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
Yeah, it opened with smoke and a huge palace full of gold and jewels and rugs
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 opened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 smoke | case |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 palace | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palace | amod |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smoke | conj |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palace | amod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jewels | cc |
| 15 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gold | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rugs | cc |
| 17 | rugs | rug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | it | with smoke and a huge palace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it opened with smoke and a palace inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 opened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 smoke | case |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 palace | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smoke | conj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 palace | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | it | with smoke and a palace | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, it opened with a huge cloud of smoke and a vast palace with a thousand rooms
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 opened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cloud | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cloud | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cloud | amod |
| 8 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 smoke | case |
| 10 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cloud | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 palace | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 13 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 palace | amod |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cloud | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rooms | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thousand | det |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 rooms | nummod |
| 18 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 palace | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | it | with a huge cloud of smoke and a vast palace with thousand rooms | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cloud | smoke | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
Yeah, it opened with a bang and gold inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 opened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bang | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bang | det |
| 7 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gold | cc |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bang | conj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | it | with a bang and gold; inside property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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