Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

Mate, what was the grand-vizir famous for, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grand vizir · What happens: be, innit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 176 «Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the monkey's handwriting wins the Sultan's favour, and the princess reveals his secret» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 famous	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 famous	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 famous	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vizir	det
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vizir	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grand	punct
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 famous	nsubj
9	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mate	amod
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 innit	mark
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 for	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 famous	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the grand vizir					Mate obl; famous property	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the grand vizir not said here						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

his mad neat handwriting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 handwriting	nmod:poss
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 handwriting	amod
3	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 handwriting	amod
4	handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	handwrite		his = he						nom handwriting «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

his mad neat handwriting and his silver pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 handwriting	nmod:poss
2	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 handwriting	amod
3	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 handwriting	amod
4	handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pen	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pen	nmod:poss
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pen	compound
8	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handwriting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	handwrite		his = he						nom handwriting «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

his quick scribbles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 scribbles	nmod:poss
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scribbles	amod
3	scribbles	scribble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scribble		his = he						nom scribble «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

his crooked lettering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lettering	nmod:poss
2	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lettering	amod
3	lettering	lettering	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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