Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: M…

how many jars did the dudes hide their guys in, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many jars, dudes · What happens: do, hide · To what, where: guys

This is test 2 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jars	amod
3	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dudes	det
6	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hide	nsubj
7	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 guys	nmod:poss
9	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hide	obj
10	in	in	ADV	_	7 hide	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 real	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 real	case
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hide	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	many jars						tree rules
2	hide	present	the dudes	dudes's guys					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Patient

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

forty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

thirty-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 nine	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 thirty	conj

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

Option 3

thirty-eight jars, one man in each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 jars	nummod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 thirty	conj
4	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 man	nummod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jars	appos
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 man	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

thirty-eight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 eight	punct
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 thirty	conj

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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