Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…
Bare jealous sisters lied, yeah? What did they say she had?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bare jealous sisters, sisters, she · What happens: lie, say, have · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» 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
Sentence 1: Bare jealous sisters lied, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sisters | amod |
| 2 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sisters | amod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lied | nsubj |
| 4 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lied | punct |
| 6 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lied | discourse |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Bare jealous sisters | vn assuming_position-50 «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.
Sentence 2: What did they say she had?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | sisters = sister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | she | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
two dogs and a goat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 dogs | nummod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 goat | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dogs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a dog, a cat and a log
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cat | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 log | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 log | det |
| 8 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a dog, a cat, a goat and a big log of wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cat | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 goat | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 goat | det |
| 8 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 log | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 log | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 log | amod |
| 12 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 log | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a dog, a cat, a parrot and a wooden door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cat | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 parrot | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 parrot | det |
| 8 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 door | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 11 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 door | amod |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | 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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