Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

what's a khan then, is it like a posh hotel or a shop?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: khan · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1493 «Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 80: Houssain buys a magic tapestry in Bisnagar» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 khan	det
4	khan	khan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 what	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 what	nsubj
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 hotel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hotel	det
11	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hotel	amod
12	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 shop	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shop	det
15	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hotel	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a khan				then	like a posh hotel or a shop	tree rules

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

A large walled courtyard where foreign merchants keep goods and camels overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 courtyard	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 courtyard	amod
3	walled	wall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 courtyard	amod
4	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 keep	advmod
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 merchants	amod
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 keep	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 camels	cc
11	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 goods	conj
12	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wall	participle							tree rules
2	keep	present	foreign merchants	a large walled courtyard				overnight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A market stall for traders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stall	det
2	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stall	compound
3	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 traders	case
5	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stall	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An inn for merchants to kip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 inn	det
2	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 merchants	case
4	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inn	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kip	mark
6	kip	kip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 inn	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kip	to-infinitive							tree rules

Option 4

A kind of hotel where traders rest their camels and sleep with their goods in a courtyard

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hotel	case
4	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 rest	advmod
6	traders	trader	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rest	nsubj
7	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	acl:relcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 camels	nmod:poss
9	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rest	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sleep	cc
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rest	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 goods	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 goods	nmod:poss
14	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 rest	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 courtyard	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 courtyard	det
17	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	present	traders	traders's camels		a courtyard		with traders's goods	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent camel=Theme in courtyard=Location
2	sleep	present	traders not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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