Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11:…

was the porter's whole story just about his sister finding him at the hiring spot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: be, find · To what, where: whole story, him, hiring spot

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 171 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the First Calender, part 11: the Calenders reveal who they are, and the First Calender begins his tale» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 porter	det
3	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 porter	case
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sister	csubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 sister	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 sister	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sister	acl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 finding	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 spot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spot	det
15	hiring	hiring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spot	compound
16	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 finding	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the porter's whole story					tree rules
2	find	gerund	his sister not said here	him = he		the hiring spot			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at spot=Asset

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

nah, he went shopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	shopping	shop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shop	gerund	he not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, that's all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 all	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 all	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

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

Option 3

yeah, and he bought some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bought	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bought	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bought	nsubj
5	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bread	det
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	he	some bread					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, plus shopping with a full basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shopping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shopping	punct
3	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	4 shopping	cc
4	shopping	shop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 basket	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 basket	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 basket	amod
8	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shop	gerund						with a full basket	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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