Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

What did the master say he couldn't do without the gazelle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: master · What happens: do, say, not do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	without	without	ADP	_	12 gazelle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gazelle	det
12	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the master		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do	could	master	without the gazelle	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Pray

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	imperative	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Eat or drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 drink	cc
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	infinitive	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Speak or sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 sing	cc
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Speak	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	you not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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