Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back…

Wait, was the princess actually nuts or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: princess

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 226 «Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back the princess and tricks the Sultan» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 princess	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 princess	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 nuts	advmod
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 princess	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nuts	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the princess or nuts					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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was faking it the whole time to dodge the Sultan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 faking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 faking	aux
5	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faking	obl:unmarked
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dodge	mark
11	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 faking	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sultan	det
13	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dodge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	she	it			time		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	dodge	to-infinitive	she not said here	the Sultan					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sultan=Location

Option 2

Yeah, she was really ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 ill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ill	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 ill	advmod
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					ill property	tree rules

Option 3

Nope, she was sane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 sane	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sane	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sane	cop
5	sane	sane	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sane property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was faking it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 faking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 faking	aux
5	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 faking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	she	it					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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