Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20:…
Did the narrator get his beard shaved? What else got shaved?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator, beard · What happens: get, shave · To what, where: beard
This is test 11 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Did the narrator get his beard shaved?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 narrator | det |
| 3 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 beard | nmod:poss |
| 6 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 get | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the narrator | narrator's beard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shave | participle | narrator's beard not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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.
Sentence 2: What else got shaved?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 shaved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shaved | aux:pass |
| 4 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | past · passive | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
moustache and eyebrows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moustache | moustache | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 eyebrows | cc |
| 3 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 moustache | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
head and beard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 beard | cc |
| 3 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 head | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
beard and eyebrows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 eyebrows | cc |
| 3 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 beard | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
beard, eyebrows and all his hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 eyebrows | punct |
| 3 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 beard | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hair | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 hair | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 beard | conj |
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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