Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Innit, what was the Sultan's fave dish, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: be · To what, where: fave dish

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 233 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water: the Sultan meets his children and his wife comes home» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dish	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 dish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dish	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dish	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Sultan	case
8	fave	fave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dish	amod
9	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Innit	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 proper	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dish	amod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Innit	the Sultan's fave dish					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

figs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

honey cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cakes	compound
2	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

roast lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lamb	compound
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cucumber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cucumber	cucumber	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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