Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…

ok so what does "loth" mean, like, in plain talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: loth · What happens: mean

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 216 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse ends, and the Caliph questions the cruel young man» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 loth	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 loth	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 loth	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loth	aux
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 loth	punct
6	loth	loth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mean	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 loth	punct
8	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	8 mean	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 talk	case
13	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 talk	amod
14	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	loth						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

to be sad about something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 sad	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 something	case
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						about something; sad property	tree rules

Option 3

tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

unwilling, like "I'm not feeling it"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 feeling	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 unwilling	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 feeling	mark
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 feeling	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 feeling	nsubj
6	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 feeling	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 feeling	advmod
8	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feeling	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unwill	gerund	I not said here						tree rules
2	not feel in a quote	present · progressive	I	it					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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