Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enc…
Did the porter get paid for hauling the basket?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: pay, haul · To what, where: porter, basket
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 169 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles: the enchantress slain, the porter invited in» 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 | 5 paid | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 porter | det |
| 3 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 paid | aux:pass |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 hauling | mark |
| 7 | hauling | haul | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 paid | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hauling | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive · do-support | the porter | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 2 | haul | gerund | the basket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, but he got a free meal and a nice bed, dude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 meal | det |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meal | amod |
| 8 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bed | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bed | det |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bed | amod |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meal | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dude | punct |
| 14 | dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meal | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | a free meal and a nice bed and dude | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |
Option 2
Kinda, some coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 4 coins | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kinda | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 coins | det |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, handsomely, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fr | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 5 fr | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 handsomely | punct |
| 5 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, a little bit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 bit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bit | amod |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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