Test 11 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…
Real life: what name does Arabic tradition give the Queen of Sheba?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: give · To what, where: Queen
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 does | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 does | obj |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 does | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | nsubj |
| 7 | Arabic | Arabic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tradition | compound |
| 8 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 does | obj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sheba | case |
| 13 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Queen | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Real life | the Queen of Sheba | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme |
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
Sheba
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Bilqis
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bilqis | Bilqis | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Cleopatra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Balk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balk | balk | 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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