Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…
not gonna lie, what did the dervish say a black stone was
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dervish · What happens: not be, do, say · To what, where: black stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 lie | advmod |
| 2 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 lie | dep |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lie | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dervish | det |
| 8 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stone | amod |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | obj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lie | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | lie property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the dervish | a black stone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stone=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 · ← Mova's choice
a prince who fell asleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a prince | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
a king who lost his crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 crown | nmod:poss |
| 6 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | a king | king's crown | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | crown | king | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a man who had failed the quest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 failed | aux |
| 5 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 quest | det |
| 7 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 failed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past · perfect | a man | the quest | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Eventuality |
Option 4
a cursed rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rock | det |
| 2 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rock | amod |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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