Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is re…

Wait, who was the sneaky one in disguise that night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: sneaky one, disguise

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 disguise	case
9	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disguise	nmod:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the sneaky one		disguise that night			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

a guard with Giafar and a cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Giafar	case
4	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 guard	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cook	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guard	conj

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

Option 2

the Caliph alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Caliph	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Caliph, with Giafar and Mesrour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Giafar	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Giafar	case
5	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Caliph	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Mesrour	cc
7	Mesrour	Mesrour	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Giafar	conj

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

Option 4

a merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	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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