Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…

bro, what did the Captain say a failed spy would lose?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Captain, failed spy · What happens: say, fail, lose · To what, where: bro · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1470 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: Cassim is killed and the thieves send a spy» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Captain	det
6	Captain	Captain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 spy	det
9	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 spy	amod
10	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	aux
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Captain	bro	tree rules
2	fail	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	would	a failed spy		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 life	nmod:poss
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

rank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rank	rank	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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