Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…

Dang, who called the cops on him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dang · What happens: call · To what, where: cops · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cops	det
6	cops	cop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	Dang	the cops				on him = he	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cop=Recipient

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

the bazaar folk, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 folk	det
2	bazaar	bazaar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 folk	compound
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fam	punct
5	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 folk	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the neighbours, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fam	punct
4	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 neighbours	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the guards, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fam	punct
4	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guards	conj

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

Option 4

the landlord, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fam	punct
4	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 landlord	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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