Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…
Did she just leave him to starve, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: leave, starve · To what, where: him
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 leave | advmod |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 starve | mark |
| 7 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | she | him = he | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | starve | to-infinitive | she not said here | 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
Nope, nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 3 nothing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nope | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, she left him alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | she | him = he | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, she sent him for supper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 supper | case |
| 7 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | she | him = he | for supper | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
No, she gave him a room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | she | a room | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient room=Theme |
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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