Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…
so the voices were yelling, what did some of them scream
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: voices, some · What happens: yell, do, scream
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 yelling | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voices | det |
| 3 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 yelling | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yelling | aux |
| 5 | yelling | yell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 did | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 scream | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 some | nmod |
| 12 | scream | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 did | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past · progressive | the voices | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | present | some | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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
run away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
go away, you fool, now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fool | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fool | nsubj |
| 5 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 go | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 now | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | imperative | you not said here | now | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fool | you | tree rules |
Option 3
help us, come quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 help | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 help | conj |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | you not said here | quick property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
help, robbers, murderers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 robbers | punct |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 help | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 murderers | punct |
| 5 | murderers | murderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 help | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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