Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 62: a prince fli…
Bare people laughed when the Indian asked for the princess, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bare people, Indian · What happens: laugh, ask
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 asked | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Indian | det |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 laughed | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Bare people | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Indian | for the princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Nah, nobody did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | 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 | do | past | nobody | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, the lot of them giggled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lot | nmod |
| 7 | giggled | giggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lot | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | giggle | participle | the lot of them not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the courtiers cracked up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cracked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cracked | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtiers | det |
| 4 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cracked | nsubj |
| 5 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 cracked | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack up | past | the courtiers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, the guards all grinned
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 grinned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 guards | det |
| 4 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grinned | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 grinned | advmod |
| 6 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | past | the guards | all property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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