Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

Did the third old man's story get told, or was it just skipped?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: tell, skip · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 man	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 man	case
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 skipped	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 skipped	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 skipped	aux:pass
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 skipped	nsubj:pass
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 skipped	advmod
15	skipped	skip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive · do-support		the third old man's story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	skip	past · passive		story					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Lost, nobody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lost	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle		nobody					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Skipped, nobody knows it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skipped	skip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nobody	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Skipped	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	present	nobody	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Skipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skipped	skip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Forgotten by the genie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 genie	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 genie	det
4	genie	genie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Forgotten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	participle						by the genie	tree rules

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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