Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Princess Parizade, part 68: the three…

Who finds the little princess, fam?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: find · To what, where: little princess

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 finds	nsubj
2	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 princess	amod
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finds	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fam	punct
7	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 princess	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present		the little princess and fam					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic

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

Some shepherd bloke out on the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bloke	nsubj
3	bloke	bloke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 bloke	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bloke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloke out	past	some shepherd			the hills			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The intendant of the gardens, the gaffer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 intendant	det
2	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gardens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gardens	det
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 intendant	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gaffer	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gaffer	det
8	gaffer	gaffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 intendant	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The sisters' steward, fam, the gaffer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sisters	det
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steward	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 sisters	case
4	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fam	punct
6	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steward	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gaffer	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gaffer	det
9	gaffer	gaffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steward	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The intendant of the gardens, the gaffer, who was out walking the park with his dog

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 intendant	det
2	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walking	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gardens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gardens	det
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 intendant	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gaffer	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gaffer	det
8	gaffer	gaffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walking	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 was	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 was	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walking	aux
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 was	compound:prt
13	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 park	det
15	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walking	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 dog	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dog	nmod:poss
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	the intendant of the gardens	the park				with gaffer's dog	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme park=Trajectory

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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