Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

Who was this bloke claiming to be his uncle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: uncle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 210 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy's plot nearly kills Noureddin, but the vizir arrives in time» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 claiming	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 claiming	cop
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bloke	det
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 claiming	nsubj
5	claiming	claim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 uncle	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 uncle	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 uncle	nmod:poss
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 claiming	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 claiming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: other	past						claim property	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		his uncle					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

a merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

an old Moorish trader

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trader	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trader	amod
3	Moorish	moorish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trader	compound
4	trader	trader	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a stranger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a famous African magician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 magician	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magician	amod
3	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magician	amod
4	magician	magician	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/210-pg128-part50/t9/