Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8:…

Bruv, what did the black slave hold, proper big?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: black slave hold

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 168 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 8: the talking fish and the Sultan's night journey» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hold	det
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hold	amod
7	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	compound
8	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 big	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 big	amod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hold	amod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the black slave hold				Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Eventuality

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

A big green stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stick	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A tall wooden spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spear	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spear	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spear	amod
4	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A massive golden sword that the Sultan gave him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sword	det
2	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sword	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sword	amod
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 gave	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sword	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Sultan	a massive golden sword	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A small silver bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bowl	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bowl	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowl	compound
4	bowl	bowl	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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