Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

the king sorted him a missus, innit? who was she, like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: sort, innit, be · To what, where: him, she

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 186 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becomes rich on a strange island, then is buried alive with his dead wife and survives by killing newcomers.» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sorted	nsubj
3	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sorted	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 missus	det
6	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sorted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sorted	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 she	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 she	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 she	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 innit	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	INTJ	_	12 she	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sort	past	the king	him = he	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the king not said here		tree rules
3	is a	past		she	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

a sweet widow from town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 widow	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 widow	amod
3	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 town	case
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 widow	nmod

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

Option 2

a lovely young queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 queen	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 queen	amod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 queen	amod
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a rich and fit lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lady	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lady	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fit	cc
4	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rich	conj
5	lady	lady	NOUN	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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