Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Dead, what did Zobeida grab from Sadie before the dogs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zobeida · What happens: grab · To what, where: Sadie

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grab	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 grab	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grab	aux
5	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grab	nsubj
6	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Sadie	case
8	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grab	obl
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 dogs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dogs	det
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grab	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past · do-support	Zobeida			Sadie	before the dogs		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from sadie=Source

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 rod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A dog chain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A whip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A cane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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