Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: M…

ok but what did the robber in the jar keep asking?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: robber · What happens: keep, ask

This is test 4 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	10 keep	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 keep	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robber	det
6	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 jar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 jar	det
9	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 robber	nmod
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keep	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the robber in the jar						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	the robber in the jar not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «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

Are we done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux:pass
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 done	nsubj
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		we					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

Is it now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Is	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	it				now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

"Is it time?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 time	nsubj
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	time					tree rules

Option 4

Is the household asleep yet?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 household	det
3	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	nsubj
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 asleep	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asleep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the household				yet	asleep property	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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