Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Firouz Schah: the prince wins back…

Why was she acting loco anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: act · To what, where: loco

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 acting	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 acting	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 acting	nsubj
4	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	loco	loco	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 acting	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 acting	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 acting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · progressive	she	loco				anyway property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent loco=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

To dodge marrying the Sultan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dodge	mark
2	dodge	dodge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dodge	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sultan	det
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 marrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	to-infinitive							vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	marry	gerund		the Sultan					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Patient

Option 2

To avoid the Persian prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 avoid	mark
2	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
4	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 prince	compound
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	to-infinitive		the Persian prince					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Location

Option 3

To dodge a fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dodge	mark
2	dodge	dodge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fight	det
4	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dodge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	to-infinitive		a fight					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fight=Location

Option 4

To escape the old king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 escape	mark
2	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 escape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	to-infinitive		the old king					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Initial_Location

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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