Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Omar: the ivory box test shows who…

did Omar let Labakan off, or was he savage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Omar · What happens: let off, be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 off	compound
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 savage	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 savage	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 savage	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 savage	nsubj
10	savage	savage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let off	past · do-support	Omar						tree rules
2	is	past	Omar					savage 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

He took his horse away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past	He	his horse				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He said go in peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 peace	case
5	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive				peace			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location

Option 3

He hanged him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hanged	nsubj
2	hanged	hange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hanged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	past	He	him = he					tree rules

Option 4

He yelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 yelled	nsubj
2	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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