Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Bruv, what did the Calenders say the porter was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Calenders · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: porter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	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	6 Calenders	det
6	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 porter	det
9	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the Calenders	the porter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent porter=Topic
3	be	past				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

A servant of the Caliph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Caliph	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Caliph	det
5	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 servant	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A rebel against their ruler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rebel	det
2	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 ruler	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ruler	nmod:poss
5	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rebel	nmod

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

Option 3

A scholar of the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scholar	det
2	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 city	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scholar	nmod

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

Option 4

A drunkard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drunkard	det
2	drunkard	drunkard	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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