Test 3 · ★ · Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old…
Wait, so who was the pedlar really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: pedlar
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1254 «Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old woman's foundling becomes a soldier, and a dog dies after a meal» 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 | _ | 7 pedlar | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 pedlar | advmod |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 pedlar | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pedlar | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pedlar | det |
| 7 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 1 Wait | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | 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 | is a | past | the pedlar | tree rules |
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
A travelling pedlar who was really the king's chief minister in disguise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pedlar | det |
| 2 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 pedlar | amod |
| 3 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 minister | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 minister | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 minister | cop |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 minister | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 minister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 minister | amod |
| 11 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 disguise | case |
| 13 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 minister | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | a travelling pedlar | the king's chief minister | disguise | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The king, in disguise
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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 disguise | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 disguise | case |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The king's own brother, who had been plotting the whole time
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 | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plotting | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 plotting | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plotting | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 plotting | aux |
| 10 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 brother | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plotting | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plot | past · perfect · progressive | the king's own brother | time | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Just a regular trader
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 trader | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 trader | det |
| 3 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trader | amod |
| 4 | trader | trader | 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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