Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Who got the treasure tip in the end, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get · To what, where: treasure tip, end

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tip	det
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tip	compound
5	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the treasure tip			in the end and bruv		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tip=Stimulus

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 dervish told Baba-Abdalla about the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dervish	det
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Abdalla	punct
6	Abdalla	Abdalla	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Baba	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the dervish		Baba and Abdalla			about the tree	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent baba=Recipient about tree=Topic

Option 2

a camel driver spilled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 driver	det
2	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 driver	compound
3	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spilled	nsubj
4	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	a camel driver	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the dervish told Baba-Abdalla

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dervish	det
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Baba	Baba	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Abdalla	punct
6	Abdalla	Abdalla	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Baba	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the dervish		Baba and Abdalla				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent baba=Recipient

Option 4

the holy dervish who was passing through Bagdad told him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dervish	det
2	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dervish	amod
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 passing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passing	aux
6	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dervish	acl:relcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 Bagdad	case
8	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 passing	obl
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	the holy dervish			Bagdad			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through bagdad=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the holy dervish		Bagdad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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