Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess rev…

How much gold did Saouy say the slave costs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: much gold, slave · What happens: say, cost · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 205 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura: the princess reveals herself, and the prince is made king and married» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gold	amod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slave	det
8	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 costs	nsubj
9	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	much gold						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cost	present	the slave						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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

10,000 gold pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

8,000 silver pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	8,000	8,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

50,000 gold pieces of the old kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	50,000	50000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 kind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	nmod

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

Option 4

10,000 gold pieces plus a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 pieces	nummod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	compound
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	6 horse	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pieces	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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