Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

Who got the kids sorted and kept them safe?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: get, sort, keep · To what, where: kids

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sorted	nsubj
5	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kept	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sort	past	the kids			vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past		kids = kid	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 · ✓ the right answer

the garden boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boss	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boss	compound
3	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the royal physician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 physician	det
2	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 physician	amod
3	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the head gardener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gardener	compound
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	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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