Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is c…

bro how many times did the deer dude hop that wall before it actually worked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many times, deer, hop · What happens: do, dude, work · To what, where: hop

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1204 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is caught by Jamila, who breaks the spell and sends him off to find the Simurgh» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	vocative
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 times	amod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dude	nsubj
8	dude	dude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	ccomp
9	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dude	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 wall	det
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hop	nmod
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 worked	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 worked	nsubj
14	actually	actually	ADV	_	15 worked	advmod
15	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dude	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	many times		bro vocative	tree rules
2	dude	present	the deer	hop that wall		tree rules
3	work	past	hop		actually property	vn employment-95.3 «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

nine times, the first eight were a total fail and he was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fail	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eight	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 eight	amod
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fail	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fail	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fail	amod
10	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tired	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tired	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tired	cop
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fail	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	nine times the first eight	a total fail					tree rules
2	is	past	he					tired property	tree rules

Option 2

nine times, but seven were flops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flops	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 flops	cc
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 flops	nummod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flops	cop
7	flops	flop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 times	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		seven flops					tree rules

Option 3

nine tries, first eight totally flopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tries	nummod
2	tries	try	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eight	punct
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 eight	advmod
5	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tries	appos
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 flopped	advmod
7	flopped	flop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 eight	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flop	participle						totally property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nine times, eight were a total fail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fail	nmod:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eight	punct
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	appos
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fail	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fail	det
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fail	amod
8	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a total fail			time		tree rules

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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