Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head make…

Yo, what did the old lady shout on the bridge to call Ali?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: shout, call · To what, where: bridge, Ali · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1235 «Arabian Nights, The Enchanted Head, part 36: the head makes the sultan's hill into a garden» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 shout	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 shout	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shout	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shout	nsubj
8	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bridge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bridge	det
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shout	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 call	mark
13	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shout	advcl
14	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 call	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · do-support	the old lady			the bridge			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	call	to-infinitive	the old lady not said here		Ali				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ali=Recipient

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

Omar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ali

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Al	Al	PROPN	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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