Test 7 · ★ · Arab Tales, The Gazelle, part 23: the gazelle wins the sul…

Who was the bloke rolling up at the palace, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bloke · What happens: be, roll up, innit · To what, where: bloke, palace

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 bloke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bloke	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bloke	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 rolling	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bloke	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the bloke		tree rules
2	roll up	gerund	the bloke not said here		the palace	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Trajectory
3	innit	infinitive				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

a whole squad of the sultan's royal soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 squad	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 squad	amod
3	squad	squad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 soldiers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sultan	det
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 soldiers	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sultan	case
8	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soldiers	amod
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 squad	nmod

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

Option 2

some proper knights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 knights	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knights	amod
3	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

loads of soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 soldiers	case
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 loads	nmod

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

Option 4

a load of guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 load	det
2	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 guards	case
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 load	nmod

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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