Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheh…

how did the merchant even get to the trees, like what was he riding?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchant · What happens: get, be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 162 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genius, part 2: Scheherazade wins more days by telling a tale of a merchant facing a fierce genie» 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	6 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 riding	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 riding	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 riding	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 riding	cop
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 riding	nsubj
15	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the merchant					to the trees result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result
2	is	past						like riding	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 · ← Mova's choice

none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a camel loaded with silk and spices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 camel	det
2	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 camel	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 silk	case
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loaded	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spices	cc
7	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 silk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	participle		a camel not said here				with silk and spices	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silk=Theme

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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