Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63:…

Who was up and nosy at the start, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 223 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63: the prince tells his flight and dines with the princess» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 innit	cc
5	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 innit	amod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 start	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 start	det
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nosy	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nosy	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Who	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Who	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past							tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

The royal guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
2	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guards	amod
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The princess's maids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maids	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 princess	case
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The palace cooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 palace	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooks	nsubj
3	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	present	the palace						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The princess's maids and the chief eunuch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maids	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 princess	case
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eunuch	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eunuch	det
7	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eunuch	amod
8	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maids	conj

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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