Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: M…

what were the stones thrown from the window for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, throw · To what, where: stones, window

This is test 6 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 stones	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stones	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stones	det
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stones	acl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thrown	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	5 thrown	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stones	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the stones					tree rules
2	throw	participle		the stones not said here		the window			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from window=Initial_Location

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

a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 joke	det
2	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 warning	det
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a signal to attack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 signal	det
2	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 attack	mark
4	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 signal	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	to-infinitive							vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a sign to the robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 robbers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robbers	det
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sign	nmod

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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