Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…
Bruv, how many shaved-head Calenders turned up at the gaff?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: shave, turn up · To what, where: gaff
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 170 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10: three shaven Calenders come to the ladies' house, and the mystery of the dogs and the scars begins» 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 | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Calenders | amod |
| 5 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 head | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 shaved | punct |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Calenders | compound |
| 8 | Calenders | calender | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 turned | compound:prt |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 gaff | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gaff | det |
| 13 | gaff | gaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | turn up | past | Bruv | the gaff | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gaff=Location |
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
Five dodgy looking geezers with shaved heads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 geezers | nummod |
| 2 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looking | compound |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 geezers | amod |
| 4 | geezers | geezer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heads | case |
| 6 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heads | amod |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 geezers | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | shave | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Seven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three shaved-head blokes from the city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 blokes | nummod |
| 2 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 head | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 shaved | punct |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blokes | compound |
| 5 | blokes | bloke | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blokes | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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