Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator…

so what is a dervish, like in plain words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: dervish

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 174 «Arabian Nights, The Third Calender, part 14: the narrator smashes the talisman, and the genius catches him» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 dervish	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 dervish	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dervish	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dervish	det
5	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 words	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 words	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 words	case
9	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dervish	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dervish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a dervish					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

a holy man who lives super simple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 man	acl:relcl
6	super	super	ADV	_	7 simple	advmod
7	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lives	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a holy man					simple property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

a monk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a rich priest who sells charms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 priest	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 priest	amod
3	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sells	nsubj
5	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 priest	acl:relcl
6	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	a rich priest	charms					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme

Option 4

a poor beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beggar	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beggar	amod
3	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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