Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Why'd the Caliph go out in disguise, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Caliph · What happens: go out · To what, where: disguise

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Caliph	det
4	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 disguise	case
8	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disguise	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	would	the Caliph			disguise and mate		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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

for a walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 walk	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 walk	det
3	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to check the market prices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prices	det
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prices	compound
5	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive		the market prices					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme

Option 3

to hunt for thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hunt	mark
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 thieves	case
4	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	to-infinitive						for thieves	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for thief=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to check justice was done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 check	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	do	past · passive		justice					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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