Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 10:…

Dead confusing, what were the merchants wearing, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: confusing merchants · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: confusing merchants

This is test 8 · ★ 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	2 confusing	amod
2	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 merchants	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 merchants	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 merchants	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 merchants	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 merchants	det
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wearing	nsubj
8	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 wearing	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 wearing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the confusing merchants					tree rules
2	wear	gerund	the confusing merchants						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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

Cloaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cloaks	cloak	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Hats of the Calenders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Calenders	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Calenders	det
4	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hats	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dresses of merchants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 merchants	case
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dresses	nmod

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

Option 4

Tunics of the eunuchs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tunics	tunic	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 eunuchs	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eunuchs	det
4	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tunics	nmod

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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