Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 49: t…

wait, what was the lake for in the garden, fish-wise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: lake

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 209 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 49: the Caliph disguised as a fisherman» 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	_	6 lake	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 lake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 garden	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lake	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wise	punct
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wise	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 fish	punct
14	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lake	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the lake	for the garden	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

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

fishing was strictly forbidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forbidden	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forbidden	aux:pass
3	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	4 forbidden	advmod
4	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past · passive		fishing				strictly property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

nothing, it was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 empty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 nothing	acl:relcl

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

Option 3

fish for guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 guests	case
3	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fish	nmod

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

Option 4

it was only for the vizir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 vizir	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vizir	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 vizir	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 vizir	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vizir	det
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					for the vizir	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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