Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…

Proper, who got strangled for the vizir's cock-up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: strangle

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 166 «Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, part 6: the king doubts the vizir, then condemns the physician to death» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	5 strangled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 strangled	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strangled	aux:pass
5	strangled	strangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	12 up	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vizir	det
8	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 up	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 vizir	case
10	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 up	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
12	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strangled	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 strangled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strangle	past · passive						for the vizir's cock up; properly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 · ← Mova's choice

the prince, after the vizir's slip-up and the king's anger at dinner

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	10 up	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vizir	det
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 vizir	case
8	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prince	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 anger	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 anger	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 king	case
15	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 dinner	case
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 anger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	anger		the king			dinner			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent at=place

Option 2

the physician, after the king's rage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 physician	det
2	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rage	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	8 rage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rage	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 physician	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rage		the king						nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the prince, after the vizir's slip-up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	10 up	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vizir	det
6	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 vizir	case
8	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 slip	punct
10	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prince	compound

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

Option 4

the prince, who had told the truth about the ogress and the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 told	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 prince	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 ogress	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ogress	det
11	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 truth	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wood	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ogress	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the prince	the truth				about the ogress and the wood	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient about ogress=Topic

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