Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

wait, what was the physician's trick, like the head?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: trick

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trick	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 trick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 trick	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 physician	det
6	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trick	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 physician	case
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 head	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					like the head	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the physician's trick					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 · ← Mova's choice

a book with poison on its pages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 poison	case
4	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 book	nmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 pages	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pages	nmod:poss
7	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 book	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	page		poison						nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a poisoned book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 book	det
2	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 book	amod
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a golden cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cup	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cup	amod
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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