Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince l…

bro who showed up at the gate right after sunset?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: show up · To what, where: gate

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 172 «Arabian Nights, The Three Calenders, part 12: the prince loses his eye, his father's throne is taken, and the lovers' tomb is found» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 showed	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obl
8	right	right	ADV	_	10 sunset	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 sunset	case
10	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	past	bro			the gate	sunset		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

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

an old tailor named Yusuf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tailor	acl
5	Yusuf	Yusuf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		a old tailor not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the second calender

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 calender	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 calender	amod
3	calender	calendar	NOUN	Number=Sing Typo=Yes	root	root

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

Option 3

a beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a merchant from Cairo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Cairo	case
4	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 merchant	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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