Test 6 · ★ · Gutenberg 7277 tales, The Story of Caliph Stork, part 1: a…

Bro, what was the Caliph dude doing when the pedlar turned up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro, Caliph dude, pedlar · What happens: be, do, turn up · To what, where: Caliph dude

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dude	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 dude	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dude	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dude	compound
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 dude	acl
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 turned	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pedlar	det
11	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 turned	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro	the Caliph dude	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the Caliph dude not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn up	past	the pedlar		vn appear-48.1.1 «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

Chilling on his divan with a pipe and coffee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 divan	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 divan	nmod:poss
4	divan	divan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chilling	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pipe	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pipe	det
7	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chilling	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 coffee	cc
9	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pipe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund				his divan		with a pipe and coffee	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pipe=Instrument

Option 2

Dozing off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dozing	doze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Dozing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	gerund							vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Counting coins at his desk in the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Counting	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 desk	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 desk	nmod:poss
5	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Counting	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Counting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		coins		his desk		in the palace	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

Option 4

Shouting at his guards in the great hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 guards	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 guards	nmod:poss
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shouting	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hall	amod
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund				his guards		in the great hall	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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