Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…
What's the Barmecide family known for, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Barmecide family · What happens: be, know · To what, where: Barmecide family
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 195 «Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar takes revenge, then is robbed and banished; Schacabac meets a Barmecide» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 4 | Barmecide | barmecide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | compound |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 family | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 known | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bruv | punct |
| 9 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Barmecide family and bruv | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | participle | the Barmecide family and bruv not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
being super generous, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 generous | cop |
| 2 | super | super | ADV | _ | 3 generous | advmod |
| 3 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fr | punct |
| 5 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 generous | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | generous, super property | tree rules |
Option 2
being super greedy, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 greedy | cop |
| 2 | super | super | ADV | _ | 3 greedy | advmod |
| 3 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fr | punct |
| 5 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 greedy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | greedy, super property | tree rules |
Option 3
being super generous and kind to everyone, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 generous | cop |
| 2 | super | super | ADV | _ | 3 generous | advmod |
| 3 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kind | cc |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 generous | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 generous | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fr | punct |
| 9 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 everyone | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | to everyone; generous, super property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
Option 4
being super wise, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wise | cop |
| 2 | super | super | ADV | _ | 3 wise | advmod |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fr | punct |
| 5 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wise | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | super, wise property | tree rules |
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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