Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…
Oi, mate, did the horse actually fly, or was the whole thing a wind-up?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oi, horse · What happens: do, fly, be · To what, where: horse, whole thing
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 222 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince flies away and lands in a princess's palace» 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 | Oi | oi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oi | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 fly | advmod |
| 9 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 horse | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 thing | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 up | det |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 up | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wind | punct |
| 19 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thing | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Oi | the horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fly | infinitive | the horse not said here | actually property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Oi not said here | the whole thing | a wind up nmod | 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
No, it didn't
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | 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 |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nope, walked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 3 walked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It actually flew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 3 | flew | fly | 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 | fly | past | It | actually property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah it sort of flew
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sort | discourse |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sort | nsubj |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flew | case |
| 5 | flew | flew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sort | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | flew | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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