Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

Yo, so the envious guy shoves the dervish down a well, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: envious guy · What happens: shove down · To what, where: dervish

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 shoves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 shoves	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guy	det
5	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 guy	amod
6	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoves	nsubj
7	shoves	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dervish	det
9	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoves	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	7 shoves	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 well	det
12	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoves	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 well	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	7 shoves	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 shoves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove down	present	the envious guy	the dervish					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dervish=Destination well=Theme

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

Yep, off a cliff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 cliff	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cliff	det
5	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yep	obl

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

Option 2

Yep, down a dry cistern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	down	down	ADP	_	6 cistern	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cistern	det
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cistern	amod
6	cistern	cistern	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yep	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, into the old well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 old	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 old	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 old	advmod

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

Option 4

Nah, into a river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 river	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	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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