Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

Wait, who saved him from the fall, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, save · To what, where: him, fall

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saved	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 fall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fall	det
8	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	past		him = he		the fall and fr			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from fall=Source

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

Angels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Some passing shepherds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 shepherds	det
2	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shepherds	compound
3	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fairies and genii

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 genii	cc
3	genii	genii	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fairies	conj

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

Option 4

Birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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