Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

ngl why did the friends bounce on Noureddin so fast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl, friends · What happens: do, bounce · To what, where: Noureddin

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» 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	ngl	ngl	X	Foreign=Yes	3 did	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friends	det
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bounce	nsubj
6	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Noureddin	case
8	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bounce	obl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 bounce	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	ngl						tree rules
2	bounce	present	the friends			Noureddin		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on noureddin=Trajectory

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

They got bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

They heard he was rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rich	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heard	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	They						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he					rich property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They heard he was broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 broke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broke	cop
5	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heard	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	They						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	he					broke property	tree rules

Option 4

He was broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	cop
3	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					broke property	tree rules

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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