Test 4 · ★ · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…

Dude, what was the gazelle's sneaky lie to the sultan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: sneaky lie

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1772 «Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sultan's favour and dresses its master in fine clothes» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lie	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 lie	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lie	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gazelle	det
6	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lie	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 gazelle	case
8	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lie	amod
9	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 sultan	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sultan	det
12	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lie	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude and the gazelle's sneaky lie	the gazelle's sneaky lie				to the sultan	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

bandits did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bandits	bandit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bandits	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

a fox nicked the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	a fox	the gold					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

robbers jumped the bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	robbers	the bro					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bro=Trajectory

Option 4

soldiers nicked his stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nicked	nsubj
2	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stuff	nmod:poss
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	soldiers	his stuff					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient

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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