Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Barber's Brothers, part 35: Alnaschar…

Okay but who is the rich old man on the sofa?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: rich old man, sofa

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 man	cc
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 man	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Okay	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 sofa	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sofa	det
11	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the rich old man		the sofa			tree rules

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 caliph himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 caliph	det
2	caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 caliph	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a Barmecide, obvi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Barmecide	det
2	Barmecide	barmecide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Barmecide	punct
4	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Barmecide	dep

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

Option 3

a rich merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 merchant	amod
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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