Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…
what did the wife thing ruin for Sidi-Nouman, lowkey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: thing ruin
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 216 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse ends, and the Caliph questions the cruel young man» 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ruin | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | compound |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruin | compound |
| 6 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Sidi | case |
| 8 | Sidi | Sidi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ruin | nmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Nouman | punct |
| 10 | Nouman | Nouman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sidi | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lowkey | punct |
| 12 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ruin | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the thing ruin and lowkey | for Sidi and Nouman | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Eventuality |
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
his trip to the market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 trip | nmod:poss |
| 2 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 market | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 market | det |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trip | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | his = he | to the market | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
his happiness with his marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 marriage | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 5 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happiness | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | his = he | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
his peace of mind at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 peace | nmod:poss |
| 2 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 mind | case |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peace | nmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 peace | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pacify | his = he | mind | home | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient at=place |
Option 4
his money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 money | nmod:poss |
| 2 | money | money | 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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