Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Cogia and the Olives, part 61: a child…

So what did Ali Cogia reckon, like how long had they been in the jar?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ali, they · What happens: do, reckon, be · To what, where: jar

This is test 4 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
5	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ali	flat
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 jar	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 long	case
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 jar	obl
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 jar	aux
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 jar	nsubj
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 jar	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 jar	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jar	det
16	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	Ali		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	they	the jar	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 right answer

Seven years, he swore it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swore	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swore	nsubj
5	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	he	it			year		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

Nine years, he said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	it			year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Ages, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ages	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ages						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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