Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

Did the old man kiss his son, or was he mad at him?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man, man · What happens: do, kiss, be · To what, where: son

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kiss	nsubj
5	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Did	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kiss	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mad	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 mad	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mad	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mad	nsubj
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Did	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mad	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	kiss	infinitive	the old man	man's son		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent
3	is	past	man		at him = he; mad property	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

He wept

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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	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	weep	past	He						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He hugged him

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 hugged	nsubj
2	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hugged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	past	He	him = he					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

He ignored him in anger

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 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 anger	case
5	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ignored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	He	him = he		anger			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He kissed him with joy

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 kissed	nsubj
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kissed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 joy	case
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kissed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	He	him = he				with joy	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with joy=Instrument

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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