Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia, part 60: the Cadi's trial is re…

Which kid was the boss of the game, like the main one?

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

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boss	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boss	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boss	det
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 game	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boss	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 one	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
12	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boss	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which kid	the boss and the main one				of the game	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 tallest boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the brightest and quickest boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brightest	det
2	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 boy	cc
4	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brightest	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the one who bossed the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 bossed	nsubj
4	bossed	boss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bossed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boss	past	the one	the others					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary

Option 4

the eldest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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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