Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part…

so which did he sell first, the slaves or the couch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sell · To what, where: slaves

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 sell	advmod
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sell	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	nsubj
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sell	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slaves	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 slaves	det
9	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 couch	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 couch	det
12	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slaves	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · do-support		the slaves or the couch				first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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

His house first, and then the slaves last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 house	nmod:poss
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 house	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 slaves	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slaves	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 slaves	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slaves	det
8	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 house	appos
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 slaves	amod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The slaves first, then stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 slaves	det
2	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 slaves	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuff	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stuff	advmod
6	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slaves	conj

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

Option 3

The couch first, then slaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 couch	det
2	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 couch	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 slaves	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 slaves	advmod
6	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 couch	conj

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

Option 4

The garden, then the horses, then the slaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 horses	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 horses	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 garden	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slaves	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 slaves	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 slaves	det
10	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 garden	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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