Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 64: the prince f…
Bruv, what did the Sultan want played for the wedding?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: do, want, play
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 want | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 wedding | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wedding | det |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 played | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv vocative | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | present | the Sultan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play not said to happen | participle | the Sultan not said here | for the wedding | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for wedding=Eventuality |
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 right answer
Drums, trumpets and cymbals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trumpets | punct |
| 3 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drums | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cymbals | cc |
| 5 | cymbals | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drums | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Drums, trumpets, cymbals and some dancing for the whole week of the wedding
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trumpets | punct |
| 3 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drums | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cymbals | punct |
| 5 | cymbals | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drums | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dancing | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 dancing | det |
| 8 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drums | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 week | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 week | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 week | amod |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dancing | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wedding | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wedding | det |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 week | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Drums, trumpets, cymbals and a whole choir, bruv, the works
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trumpets | punct |
| 3 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drums | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cymbals | punct |
| 5 | cymbals | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drums | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 choir | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 choir | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 choir | amod |
| 9 | choir | choir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cymbals | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bruv | punct |
| 11 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 choir | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 works | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 works | det |
| 14 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drums | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Lutes, flutes and harps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lutes | lute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flutes | punct |
| 3 | flutes | flute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lutes | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 harps | cc |
| 5 | harps | harp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lutes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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