Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…

So what's the Enchanted Horse all about, is it a proper monster?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: proper monster, Enchanted Horse · What happens: enchant, be · To what, where: Enchanted Horse, proper monster

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 221 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child judges a thief, then a magic horse appears» 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 monster	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Horse	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Horse	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Horse	det
5	Enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Horse	amod
6	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 monster	nsubj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 about	advmod
8	about	about	ADV	_	6 Horse	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 about	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 monster	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 monster	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 monster	det
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 monster	amod
14	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 monster	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	a proper monster	the Enchanted Horse	about property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the Enchanted Horse	a proper monster		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

Nah, it's a magic horse, bare wild, and the Indian rides it into the palace

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 horse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horse	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wild	amod
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rides	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rides	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Indian	det
14	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rides	nsubj
15	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rides	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a magic horse		tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	ride	present	the Indian	horse	the palace	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme into palace=Trajectory

Option 2

Nah, it's a sort of beast, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sort	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sort	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sort	det
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 beast	case
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a sort and mate				of beast	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it's a magic horse, bare wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 horse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horse	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wild	amod
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a magic horse					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it's a magic horse, bare wild, that flies over the whole desert

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 horse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 horse	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wild	amod
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 flies	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 flies	nsubj
13	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 horse	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 desert	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 desert	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 desert	amod
17	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a magic horse		tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	fly	present	that		the whole desert	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over desert=Location

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