Test 1 · ★ · Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wif…
yo, did Abu Nowas really rub pepper in his eyes just to fake crying?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Abu · What happens: do, rub, fake, cry · To what, where: pepper, eyes
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 707 «Eastern Tales, Abu Nowas, part 47: Abu Nowas fakes his wife's death and tricks the Sultan out of gold» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rub | nsubj |
| 5 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Abu | flat |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 rub | advmod |
| 7 | rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rub | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rub | obl |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 fake | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fake | mark |
| 14 | fake | fake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rub | advcl |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fake | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | rub | present | Abu | pepper | Abu's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme in eye=Destination | |||
| 3 | fake | to-infinitive | Abu not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | Abu not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, proper sneaky, to fool the Sultan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sneaky | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sneaky | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sneaky | amod |
| 4 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fool | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fool | mark |
| 7 | fool | fool | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 sneaky | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sultan | det |
| 9 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fool | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | to-infinitive | the Sultan | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Patient |
Option 2
yeah, sneaky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sneaky | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, he was genuinely upset about his wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 upset | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 upset | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 upset | cop |
| 5 | genuinely | genuinely | ADV | _ | 6 upset | advmod |
| 6 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 upset | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | about his wife; genuinely, upset property | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, just onion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 onion | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 onion | advmod |
| 4 | onion | onion | 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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