Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Fair Persian, part 49: t…

what's the secret signal for the slaves outside?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: secret signal · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 signal	det
4	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 signal	amod
5	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 slaves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slaves	det
8	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 signal	nmod
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 slaves	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the secret signal for the slaves						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

Wave a cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloth	det
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here	a cloth					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

clap his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clap	clap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 clap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	imperative	you not said here	his hands					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme

Option 3

Whistle twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Whistle	advmod

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

Option 4

Stamp on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stamp	nmod

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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