Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: M…

what instrument did Abdallah play, like a drum or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: play · To what, where: drum

This is test 8 · ★ 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 play	aux
4	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 play	nsubj
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drum	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 drum	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 drum	det
9	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 drum	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 play	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · do-support	what instrument	a drum					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=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

the lyre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lyre	det
2	lyre	lyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the tabor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tabor	det
2	tabor	tabor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a small hand-drum with silver bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drum	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drum	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drum	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
5	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bells	case
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bells	compound
8	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drum	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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