Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Enchanted Horse, part 63:…
What was the prince's wicked story about?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wicked story · What happens: be
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 prince | case |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 story | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the prince's wicked story | 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
A flying horse from a festival in Persia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 festival | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 festival | det |
| 6 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Persia | case |
| 8 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 festival | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A flying horse from a festival in Persia that nobody believed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 festival | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 festival | det |
| 6 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Persia | case |
| 8 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 festival | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 believed | obj |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 believed | nsubj |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 horse | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | believe | past | nobody | a flying horse from a festival in Persia | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A flying horse from a festival
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 festival | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 festival | det |
| 6 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horse | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A cruel king and his lost sons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sons | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sons | amod |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 king | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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