Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Oi, why did Sadie fetch flutes and a tambourine, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sadie · What happens: fetch, innit · To what, where: flutes

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fetch	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fetch	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fetch	aux
5	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	nsubj
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Oi	parataxis
7	flutes	flute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fetch	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tambourine	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tambourine	det
10	tambourine	tambourine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flutes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fetch	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past · do-support	Sadie	flutes and a tambourine					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	Sadie not said here						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

So the Calenders could play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 play	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Calenders	det
3	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 play	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 play	aux
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	could	the Calenders						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

So the ladies could dance around the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 dance	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladies	det
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dance	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dance	aux
5	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	could	the ladies			the room			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around room=Location

Option 3

To make some music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 music	det
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		some music					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product

Option 4

To wake the neighbours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wake	mark
2	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 neighbours	det
4	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	to-infinitive		the neighbours					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Patient

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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