Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 65: the Indian i…
did the Sultan send his messengers far with a memo about her?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sultan · What happens: send · To what, where: messengers
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 225 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Horse, part 65: the Indian is killed and the princess pretends to be mad» 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 send | nsubj |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 messengers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 send | obj |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 send | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 memo | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 memo | det |
| 10 | memo | memo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 memo | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · do-support | the Sultan | Sultan's messengers | with a memo about her; far property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme |
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
yeah, a few letters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 letters | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 letters | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 letters | amod |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, to every nearby kingdom with a prize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 kingdom | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kingdom | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 kingdom | det |
| 5 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kingdom | amod |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 prize | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prize | det |
| 9 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kingdom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, to all the neighbouring states, offering a reward
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 offering | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 states | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 states | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 states | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 states | det |
| 6 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 states | amod |
| 7 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 offering | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 offering | punct |
| 9 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 reward | det |
| 11 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offering | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | offer | gerund | all neighbouring states | a reward | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent reward=Theme |
Option 4
nah, only to the Sultan of Persia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 Sultan | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 Sultan | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Sultan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Persia | case |
| 8 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sultan | 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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