Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Omar: the ivory box test shows who…

wait, what was in Labakan's box, treasure or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: box

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 718 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Omar: the ivory box test shows who is the true prince» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 box	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 box	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 box	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 box	case
6	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 box	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Labakan	case
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 treasure	punct
10	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 box	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 box	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past				Labakan's box and treasure			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 pair of scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 scissors	case
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod

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

Option 2

A large needle and a spool of thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 needle	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 needle	amod
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spool	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spool	det
6	spool	spool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needle	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 thread	case
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spool	nmod

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

Option 3

Some silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 coins	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coins	compound
3	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A needle and thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 needle	det
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thread	cc
4	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needle	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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