Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part…

how many lions were guarding the gate, fr?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many lions · What happens: guard · To what, where: gate

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1499 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 86: Ahmed fetches the lions' water, then meets Schaibar, the Fairy's giant brother» 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 lions	amod
3	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guarding	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guarding	aux
5	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guarding	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gate	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 guarding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past · progressive	many lions	the gate and fr					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary

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

three, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cap	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 cap	det
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 three	appos

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

like four lions, no cap, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 lions	case
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lions	nummod
3	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cap	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lions	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lions	conj

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

Option 3

five, for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 real	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 five	parataxis

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

four, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cap	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 cap	det
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 four	appos

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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