Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Sick, what was the Sultan gonna bring the kids tomorrow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Sultan · What happens: sick, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 bring	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bring	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bring	nsubj
7	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 bring	dep
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sick	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kids	det
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bring	obj
11	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	the Sultan				tomorrow	bring property	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

the Sultana, their mother, freed at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultana	det
2	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sultana	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 freed	punct
7	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mother	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 freed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	participle		their mother not said here		last			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2

the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Sultana

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultana	det
2	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	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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