Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20:…

Bro, who's the porter in the new story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: porter, new story

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 180 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20: the Golden Door is opened, a flying horse carries the narrator off and blinds his right eye» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 porter	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 porter	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 porter	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porter	det
6	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 porter	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro	the porter		the new story			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 porter named Hindbad from Bagdad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 porter	acl
4	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Bagdad	case
6	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		the porter not said here		Bagdad			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Hindbad the poor porter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porter	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 porter	amod
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hindbad	appos

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hindbad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Hassan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	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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