Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is re…
What made the little Cadi go "odd" in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: little Cadi go, end
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 220 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is replayed by children, and a clever boy spots the trick» 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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 go | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | amod |
| 5 | Cadi | Cadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | compound |
| 6 | go | go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 odd | punct |
| 8 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | parataxis |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 odd | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the little Cadi go | in the end | 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 olives' taste
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 olives | det |
| 2 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taste | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 olives | case |
| 4 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | the olives | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=patient |
Option 2
the vase being sealed too well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vase | det |
| 2 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sealed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sealed | aux:pass |
| 4 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sealed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seal | gerund · passive | the vase | well property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
olives seven years old tasting so good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tasting | nsubj |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 olives | conj |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tasting | amod |
| 5 | tasting | tasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tasting | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the merchant's oath on the Quran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oath | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 merchant | case |
| 4 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Quran | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Quran | det |
| 7 | Quran | Quran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 oath | nmod |
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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