Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

What did the fisherman do before he threw his net, like get naked?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fisherman · What happens: do, throw, get · To what, where: net

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fisherman	det
4	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 threw	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	nsubj
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 net	nmod:poss
10	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 get	case
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 threw	conj
14	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the fisherman			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw	past	fisherman	fisherman's net		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
4	get	infinitive	fisherman not said here		naked property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

He undressed

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 undressed	nsubj
2	undressed	undress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undress	past	He						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He prayed

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 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	He						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He cast the bait

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 cast	nsubj
2	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bait	det
4	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cast	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past	He	the bait					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bait=Product

Option 4

He lit a small fire

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 lit	nsubj
2	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fire	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fire	amod
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past	He	a small fire					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product

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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