Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…
did the princess look back once?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: princess · What happens: look back
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 look | advmod |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 look | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past · do-support | the princess | once property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 · ✓ the right answer
nope, she kept her eyes forward
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | her eyes | forward property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, but only at the horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 horse | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 horse | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 horse | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 horse | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, she ran off the path
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 path | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 path | det |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | she | the path | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory |
Option 4
yeah, twice, loads of times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 loads | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 loads | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 twice | punct |
| 5 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 loads | nmod |
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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