Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

What did the woman do that was sus?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woman · What happens: do, be · To what, where: sus

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 218 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coins and is freed by a magician's daughter» 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	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sus	det
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sus	cop
8	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the woman						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is a	past		that sus					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

She called him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	She		him = he				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Beckoned him to follow her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beckoned	beckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Beckoned	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 follow	mark
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Beckoned	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beckon	past		him = he					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	follow	to-infinitive		her = she					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She waved him to come along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 waved	xcomp
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	She	him = he					tree rules
2	come along	to-infinitive	She not said here					along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	She						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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