Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

so who was the big boss who wanted the fish, innit?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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	_	6 boss	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 boss	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boss	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boss	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boss	amod
6	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boss	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boss	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the big boss and innit					tree rules
2	want	past	the big boss and innit	the fish					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme

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 right answer

the Sultan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the grand-vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vizir	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vizir	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grand	punct
4	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the first vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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