Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

So the genie gave the merchant a third off, cause the story was wicked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: genie, story · What happens: give off, cause, be · To what, where: merchant

This is test 3 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 genie	det
3	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 third	det
8	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cause	punct
11	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 story	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wicked	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wicked	cop
15	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cause	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give off	past	the genie	the merchant		tree rules
2	cause	infinitive	the genie not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	is	past	the story		wicked 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

Nah, it was boring, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 boring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boring	cop
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boring	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					mate vocative; boring property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was marvellous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 marvellous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marvellous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 marvellous	cop
5	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					marvellous property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, it was rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 rubbish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rubbish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rubbish	cop
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	rubbish					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, cheers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 cheers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	cheers	cheer	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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