Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Allow it, what got the crowd going mad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, crowd · What happens: allow, get, go · To what, where: it, crowd

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Allow	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Allow	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 crowd	acl
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 going	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Allow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	allow	imperative	you not said here	it		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	get	past		the crowd		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crowd=Stimulus
3	go	gerund	the crowd not said here		mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

shouts of welcome

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 welcome	case
3	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shouts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present						of welcome	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

drums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

trumpets and bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bells	cc
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 trumpets	conj

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

Option 4

cheers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cheers	cheer	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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