Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

Who was skint and got robbed by his own brothers in the story?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: own brothers · What happens: be, rob

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 skint	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skint	cop
3	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 robbed	cc
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 robbed	aux:pass
6	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 skint	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 brothers	amod
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 robbed	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 story	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 story	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brothers	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 skint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						skint property	tree rules
2	rob	past · passive	his own brothers in the story						vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

The first old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The second old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The fisherman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The youngest brother who went to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brother	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youngest brother			sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location

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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