Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…
So what did the judge tell him to do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 tell | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 tell | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 judge | det |
| 5 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tell | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | the judge | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the judge not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
dip out of town for good, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | dip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dip | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fr | case |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fr | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 8 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dip | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip out | imperative | you not said here | town | for good fr | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme |
Option 2
pack up and go, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | pack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 pack | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 go | cc |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 pack | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fr | punct |
| 6 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 pack | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack up | imperative | you not said here | fr | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
ghost the city, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ghost | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fr | punct |
| 5 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ghost | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
dip out of town, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | dip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 dip | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fr | punct |
| 6 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 town | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip out | imperative | you not said here | town and fr | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme |
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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