Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…
what did the dervish say, like, the real deal?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dervish · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 230 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, part 70: Parizade wins the bird and the Golden Water» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dervish | det |
| 4 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 deal | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 deal | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 deal | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 deal | amod |
| 11 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the dervish | 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 · ✓ the right answer
don't go, it's deadly, turn back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deadly | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deadly | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deadly | cop |
| 7 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turn | punct |
| 9 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 turn | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | deadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn back | infinitive | you not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
go fast and don't stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stop | cc |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 stop | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stop | advmod |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 go | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not stop | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
take the bird and run
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 run | cc |
| 5 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the bird and run | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bird=Destination |
Option 4
bring him a pearl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 bring | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pearl | det |
| 4 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a pearl | him = he | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination pearl=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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