Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three…
Wait, do the people actually spit on her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, people · What happens: wait, do, spit
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 228 «Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three foundlings grow up, and a pilgrim names three wonders the princess must have» 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 | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spit | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 spit | advmod |
| 7 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spit | obl |
| 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 | do | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spit | present | the people | on her = she; actually property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on she=Destination |
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
Yeah, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cap | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Every Mussulman passing has to, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 passing | det |
| 2 | Mussulman | mussulman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passing | compound |
| 3 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 has | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cap | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 cap | det |
| 8 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every Mussulman passing | no cap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Some do, the ones who hate her, real talk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 do | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ones | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ones | det |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 do | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hate | nsubj |
| 7 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ones | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 talk | punct |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 talk | amod |
| 11 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ones | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Some | the ones and real talk | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hate | present | the ones and real talk | her = she | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
Option 4
Nah, they just stare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stare | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stare | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stare | advmod |
| 5 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | present | they | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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