Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…
Bro, how much gold did the dad fork over for the Persian girl?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do · To what, where: dad fork
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gold | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gold | amod |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fork | det |
| 8 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fork | compound |
| 9 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 girl | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bro and much gold | the dad fork | for the Persian girl; over property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=Eventuality |
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
Just 200 gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 200 | advmod |
| 2 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 gold | nummod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Like 8,000 gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 coins | discourse |
| 2 | 8,000 | 8,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 coins | nummod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coins | compound |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ 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 4
Like 500 gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 3 gold | discourse |
| 2 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 gold | nummod |
| 3 | gold | gold | 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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