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Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the me…

Why did the genie stop and listen? Was he just being nice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: genie · What happens: stop, listen, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 163 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 3: the merchant goes back to the fountain, and an old man begins his tale» 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

Sentence 1: Why did the genie stop and listen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stop	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 genie	det
4	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 listen	cc
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stop	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	the genie						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	listen	infinitive	the genie not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: Was he just being nice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nice	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nice	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 nice	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	genie					nice property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He agreed after the old man begged him to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 begged	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 agreed	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	7 begged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	He						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	the old man		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

He was just nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 nice	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					nice property	tree rules

Option 3

He was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules

Option 4

He listened because he felt pity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 felt	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	nsubj
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	ccomp
6	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 felt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	He						tree rules
2	feel	past	he	pity					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme

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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