Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prin…

Wait, who got the dog's posh leftovers?

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

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1207 «Arabian Nights, The Rose and the Cypress, part 8: the prince wins a wish and the king starts his tale» 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	_	4 got	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leftovers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dog	case
8	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 leftovers	amod
9	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
10	?	?	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	get	past		the dog's posh leftovers					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leftover=Stimulus

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 king ate them, poor thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the king	them = they					tree rules

Option 2

Gul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gul	Gul	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Gul did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gul	Gul	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	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	do	past	Gul						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gul ate them, poor thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gul	Gul	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Gul	them = they					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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