Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 57: C…

sus, what did Morgiana say her master couldn't do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Morgiana, master · What happens: say, not do · To what, where: sus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sus	conj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Morgiana	sus					tree rules
2	not do	could	Morgiana's master						vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

eat or speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 speak	cc
3	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	you not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

stand up or see the light of day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 stand	compound:prt
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 see	cc
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 stand	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stand up	imperative	you not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	the light of day	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
3	light			day	nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

walk outside, eat, or speak to anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 walk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 walk	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 speak	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 speak	cc
7	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 walk	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 speak	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here		outside property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	infinitive	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	you not said here	all	to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

Option 4

run or hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 hide	cc
3	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 run	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	infinitive	you not said here						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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