Test 10 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan…
What did the princess call her house, like, for real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: call · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 232 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 72: the Sultan is invited to the princess's house, and she plans a feast with pearl-stuffed cucumbers» 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 | 5 call | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 house | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 real | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 real | case |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 call | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | the princess | princess's house | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme house=Result |
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
A plain wooden farmhouse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farmhouse | det |
| 2 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmhouse | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmhouse | amod |
| 4 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A simple country house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | compound |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A small hut
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hut | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hut | amod |
| 3 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A humble farm cottage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cottage | det |
| 2 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cottage | amod |
| 3 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cottage | compound |
| 4 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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