Test 8 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…

Fr, what state was the old dervish in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: state, be · To what, where: old dervish

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet the Sultan» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dervish	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 state	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 state	nsubj
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	appos
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dervish	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dervish	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dervish	amod
8	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 dervish	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dervish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other		Fr						tree rules
2	is a	past	Fr	the old dervish					tree rules

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

asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

frozen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

turned to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 stone	case
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle				stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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