Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: M…
so who's the bossy captain pretending to sell oil?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pretend, sell · To what, where: oil
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1471 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: Morgiana foils the robbers' attack and dances at supper» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 pretending | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 pretending | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pretending | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 captain | det |
| 5 | bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 captain | amod |
| 6 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pretending | nsubj |
| 7 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sell | mark |
| 9 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pretending | xcomp |
| 10 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sell | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 pretending | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present · progressive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | oil | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme |
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 oil seller boss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boss | det |
| 2 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seller | compound |
| 3 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boss | compound |
| 4 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the robber captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 2 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 captain | compound |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a merchant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | 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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