Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

Wait, the old man's missus became what, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, missus · What happens: wait, become, innit

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 missus	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 man	case
7	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 became	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the old man's missus	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient what=Result
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here	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

Like a goat, I reckon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 goat	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goat	det
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 goat	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	I					like a goat	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A hind, like a deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hind	det
2	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deer	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 deer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deer	det
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hind	obl

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

Option 3

Like a white hind from the forest, proper beautiful, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 hind	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hind	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hind	amod
4	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beautiful	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hind	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hind	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beautiful	amod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	INTJ	_	10 beautiful	discourse

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

Option 4

A black dog, like the brothers, honestly, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brothers	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 brothers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dog	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 honestly	punct
9	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 brothers	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	conj

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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