Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…

real talk, what does the dervish say the Talking Bird is in

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: dervish, real talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 229 «Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman turns to black stone on the mountain» 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dervish	det
7	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bird	det
10	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bird	compound
11	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 in	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 in	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	8 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the dervish					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present		real talk					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

a splendid cage high on the mountain top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cage	det
2	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cage	amod
3	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 cage	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	compound
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cage	nmod

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

Option 2

a gilded tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tower	det
2	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tower	amod
3	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gild	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a splendid cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cage	det
2	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cage	amod
3	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a magic cage made of gold and singing stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cage	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cage	amod
3	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cage	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 singing	cc
8	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	conj
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a magic cage not said here				of gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	sing speech: express	gerund		stones					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme

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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