Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

Wait, what did they even call her, the lady slave?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: wait, do, call · To what, where: lady slave, her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	nsubj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 call	advmod
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slave	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 slave	det
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slave	compound
12	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the lady slave		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	present	they		her = she	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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 Dark Persian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Persian	det
2	Dark	Dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Persian	compound
3	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Fair Persian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Persian	det
2	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Persian	amod
3	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Her name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		Her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Persian girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 girl	amod
2	girl	girl	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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