Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…
Yo, so the prince needed posh attendants before meeting the King, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: need, meet · To what, where: posh attendants, King
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 224 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince flies home, and the angry Indian plots revenge» 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 6 needed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 needed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needed | nsubj |
| 6 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 attendants | amod |
| 8 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 needed | obj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 meeting | mark |
| 10 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 needed | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 meeting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 King | punct |
| 14 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 10 meeting | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 needed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | the prince | posh attendants | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot attendant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | gerund | the prince not said here | the King | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-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
Yeah bro, loads of posh servants and gold stuff to impress the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 bro | discourse |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 loads | punct |
| 4 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bro | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 servants | case |
| 6 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 servants | amod |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loads | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stuff | cc |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuff | compound |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 servants | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 impress | mark |
| 12 | impress | impress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stuff | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 impress | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impress | to-infinitive | the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, ones fitting his rank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 ones | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ones | punct |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | fitting | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ones | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 rank | nmod:poss |
| 6 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fitting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | gerund | ones not said here | his rank | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Patient |
Option 3
Yeah, ones fitting his rank, like the king's own posh lot, innit
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 ones | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ones | punct |
| 3 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | fitting | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 ones | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 rank | nmod:poss |
| 6 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fitting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lot | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 lot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lot | amod |
| 13 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lot | amod |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fitting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 innit | punct |
| 16 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ones | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | gerund | ones not said here | his rank | like the king's own posh lot | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rank=Patient | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, proper ones for him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ones | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ones | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ones | nmod |
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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