Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

Who's the dude who gave him a corner to kip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: be, give, kip · To what, where: dude, corner, him

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dude	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dude	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dude	acl:relcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 corner	det
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 kip	mark
11	kip	kip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 corner	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the dude		tree rules
2	give	past	the dude	a corner	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient corner=Theme
3	kip	to-infinitive	the dude not said here	a corner not said here		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

The barber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barber	det
2	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The baker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baker	det
2	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The cobbler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cobbler	det
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Butcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butcher	butcher	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.

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