Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

What's the cat thing, like what was the cure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat thing · What happens: be · To what, where: cat thing

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cure	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 cure	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 cure	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cure	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cure	det
11	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the cat thing and the cure					tree rules
2	is	past	the cat thing and the cure					like the cure	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

Burn the hairs of a black cat in the bath every morning for a week

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hairs	det
3	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Burn	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 cat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cat	amod
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hairs	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bath	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bath	det
10	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obl:unmarked
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 week	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 week	det
15	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	imperative	you not said here	the hairs of a black cat		the bath	morning; week		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 2

Fed the cat to the princess and then burned his tail feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fed	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 princess	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burned	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 burned	advmod
9	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Fed	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feathers	nmod:poss
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feathers	compound
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past		the cat	the princess				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cat=Theme to princess=Recipient
2	burn	past		cat's tail feathers			then		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent feather=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven white hairs burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hairs	nummod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hairs	amod
3	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hairs	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle		Seven white hairs not said here					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Rubbed with cat's milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 milk	case
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 milk	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cat	case
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rubbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	participle						with cat's milk	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with milk=Theme

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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