Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul an…

the dog was basically the best boi, so what did it grab?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: be, grab

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1208 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul and unmasks the princess's secret» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 best	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 best	cop
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 best	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 best	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	boi	Boi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 best	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grab	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 grab	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 grab	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grab	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grab	nsubj
13	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 best	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dog					basically, good property	tree rules
2	grab	past · do-support	dog						vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the negro's throat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 negro	det
2	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 negro	case
4	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the groom's hand tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 groom	det
2	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hand	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 groom	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tight	nsubj
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

the negro's throat and wouldn't let go until the fight was over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 negro	det
2	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 negro	case
4	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throat	conj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 over	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fight	det
12	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 over	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 over	cop
14	over	over	ADV	_	9 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not let	would			tree rules
2	go	infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the fight	over property	tree rules

Option 4

the rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	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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