Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

Was the fisherman rich or proper poor, be honest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fisherman · What happens: be · To what, where: fisherman

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fisherman	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 honest	nsubj
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fisherman	amod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 proper	cc
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	conj
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fisherman	punct
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 honest	cop
10	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fisherman					tree rules
2	is	infinitive	the fisherman					honest property	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

Poor, honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 honest	punct
3	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Poor	conj

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

Option 2

Quite poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 poor	advmod
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Rich enough, with a big house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Rich	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rich	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rich	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Proper poor, with three kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 poor	amod
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kids	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kids	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 kids	case
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kids	nummod
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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