Test 10 · ★ · Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a…

Mate, who was this Selim geezer supposed to be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, suppose · To what, where: Selim geezer

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1871 «Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a pedlar sells the Caliph a scroll that the learned Selim finds is Latin» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 geezer	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 geezer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 geezer	cop
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 geezer	det
6	Selim	selim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geezer	amod
7	geezer	geezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 geezer	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 be	mark
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 supposed	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and this Selim geezer	this Selim geezer	tree rules
2	suppose	participle		this Selim geezer not said here	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	to-infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 right answer

The clever scholar who knows every language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scholar	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scholar	amod
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scholar	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 language	det
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	the clever scholar	every language					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus

Option 2

The clever scholar who knows every language spoken in the lands of the East and beyond

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scholar	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scholar	amod
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scholar	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 language	det
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	obj
8	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 language	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 lands	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lands	det
11	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spoken	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 East	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 East	det
14	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lands	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 beyond	cc
16	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	5 knows	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	the clever scholar	every language					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	participle		every language not said here		the lands of the East			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The strict guard who keeps the palace gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guard	det
2	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guard	amod
3	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 guard	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	compound
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the strict guard	the palace gate					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme

Option 4

The clever scholar who knows every language and can read any old scroll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scholar	det
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scholar	amod
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 read	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scholar	acl:relcl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 language	det
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 knows	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 read	aux
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 scroll	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scroll	amod
13	scroll	scroll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	the clever scholar	every language					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
2	read	can	the clever scholar	any old scroll					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scroll=Topic

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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