Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…
Bro, what was the Indian's plan for getting back at the Sultan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, Indian plan · What happens: be, get back · To what, where: Indian plan, Sultan
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plan | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 plan | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 plan | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 6 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plan | amod |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Indian | case |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | appos |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 getting | mark |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 plan | acl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 getting | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Sultan | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bro | the Indian plan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get back | gerund | the Indian plan not said here | the Sultan | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Kill the prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | imperative | you not said here | the prince | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
Option 2
Snatch the princess away and take her back to India forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snatch | snatch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snatch | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Snatch | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 take | cc |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Snatch | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 India | case |
| 10 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 11 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 6 take | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch away | imperative | you not said here | the princess | away property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | princess's back | India | forever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to india=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Snatch the princess away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snatch | snatch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snatch | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Snatch | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch away | imperative | you not said here | the princess | away property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
Option 4
Burn the palace down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Burn | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Burn | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn down | imperative | you not said here | the palace | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=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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