Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…

ngl the knife thing is wild, what did the blade look like when he got turned to stone

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, blade · What happens: be, look, turn · To what, where: blade, stone

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wild	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wild	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wild	cop
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 look	obl
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blade	det
11	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	nsubj
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wild	parataxis
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	17 turned	mark
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 turned	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turned	nsubj
16	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 turned	aux:pass
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 look	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 stone	case
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	ngl			wild property	tree rules
2	look	past · do-support	the blade				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	turn	past · passive		blade	stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory

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

it was all rust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rust	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rust	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 rust	det
4	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	all rust					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it turned black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	it					black property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it had blood on the tip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tip	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tip	det
6	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	blood		the tip			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

covered in blood drops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 drops	case
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drops	compound
4	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in blood drops	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in drop=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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