Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Innit, what's a Calender in plain talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: be · To what, where: Calender, plain talk

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Calender	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Calender	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Calender	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Calender	det
6	Calender	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	1 Innit	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 talk	case
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talk	amod
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Calender	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Innit	a Calender		plain talk			tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

A wandering holy man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
2	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 man	amod
3	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

A man who shaved his head for vows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaved	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 shaved	nsubj
4	shaved	shave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaved	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 vows	case
8	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shaved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	past	a man	man's head				for vows	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 3

A travelling merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
2	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 merchant	compound
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A pilgrim who wanders from town to town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pilgrim	det
2	pilgrim	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wanders	nsubj
4	wanders	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pilgrim	acl:relcl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 town	case
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanders	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 town	case
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanders	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	present	a pilgrim			town		to town	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination

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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