Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…

Did the merchants reckon the olives were fresh or manky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchants, olives · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 merchants	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchants	det
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 olives	det
6	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fresh	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fresh	cop
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckon	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 manky	cc
10	manky	manky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fresh	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the merchants		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the olives	fresh property	tree rules
3	be		the olives not said here		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

Rotten and well past it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 well	cc
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Rotten	conj
4	past	past	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rotten	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fresh and proper good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 proper	cc
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fresh	conj
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fresh	conj

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

Option 3

Off and mouldy, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Off	off	ADV	_	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mate	cc
3	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mouldy	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Off	conj

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

Option 4

Fresh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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