Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Where's the Sultana been stuck all them years, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: all · What happens: stick, year · To what, where: Sultana

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 stuck	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sultana	det
4	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	nsubj:pass
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 stuck	aux:pass
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 years	nsubj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stuck	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 stuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present · passive		the Sultana					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	year		all						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

a narrow prison beneath the mosque walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prison	det
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prison	amod
3	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	7 walls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
6	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walls	compound
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prison	nmod

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

Option 2

a stone cell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cell	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cell	compound
3	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a cold dark dungeon at the edge of the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dungeon	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dungeon	amod
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dungeon	amod
4	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dungeon	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 city	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a narrow prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 prison	det
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prison	amod
3	prison	prison	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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