Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

How did the baker reckon the dog was?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baker · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 reckon	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baker	det
4	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	cop
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · do-support	the baker					reckon property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Worth his weight in gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weight	amod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 weight	nmod:poss
3	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weight	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The baker said the dog was worth more than the whole shop and stock

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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worth	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 worth	cop
7	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 worth	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 shop	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shop	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shop	amod
12	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 more	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stock	cc
14	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the baker						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the dog					worth property	tree rules

Option 3

Worth more than all the gold in the whole city of Baghdad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 more	amod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	6 gold	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 gold	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 more	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 city	amod
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gold	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Baghdad	case
12	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 city	nmod

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

Option 4

Like a golden prize dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	5 dog	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
4	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dog	compound
5	dog	dog	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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