Test 6 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

Who had to guide the whole massive lot to Wali Dâd's gaff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: have, guide · To what, where: whole massive lot, gaff

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 guide	mark
4	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lot	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lot	amod
7	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lot	amod
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guide	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 gaff	case
10	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Dâd	compound
11	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 gaff	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Dâd	case
13	gaff	gaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guide	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past							tree rules
2	guide	to-infinitive		the whole massive lot		Wali Dâd's gaff			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lot=Theme to gaff=Destination

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 prince's own servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the merchant, straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	2 merchant	advmod

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

Option 3

the merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the merchant, straight up, with his whole caravan of men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 straight	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
4	straight	straight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 straight	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 caravan	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 caravan	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 caravan	nmod:poss
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 caravan	amod
10	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 straight	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 caravan	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	straight up	infinitive	the merchant					with merchant's whole caravan of men	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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