Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Bare weird, what did the porter lead in on a chain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: porter · What happens: do, lead

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weird	amod
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 did	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 porter	det
7	porter	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lead	nsubj
8	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 chain	case
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 chain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chain	det
12	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lead	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lead	present	the porter					in a chain	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in chain=Patient

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

Two black horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 horses	nummod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Three grey mules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 mules	nummod
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mules	amod
3	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

One black cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cat	nummod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two black dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 dogs	nummod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dogs	amod
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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