Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…

Wait, how old was the boy who was the Cadi, like nine or ten?

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

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 221 «Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child judges a thief, then a magic horse appears» 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 boy	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	advcl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 Cadi	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Cadi	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cadi	det
11	Cadi	Cadi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boy	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nine	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 nine	case
14	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Wait	parataxis
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 ten	cc
16	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 nine	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	you not said here	the old boy	tree rules
3	is a	past	the old boy	the Cadi	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

Nah, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, he was about twelve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 twelve	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 twelve	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 twelve	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 twelve	advmod
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	twelve				about property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, nine or ten, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 nine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nine	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 ten	cc
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nine	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nine	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nine	vocative

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

Option 4

Dunno, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	vocative

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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