Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the m…

What did the captain say about his lost son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: do, say, lose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 176 «Arabian Nights, The Monkey Who Could Write, part 16: the monkey's handwriting wins the Sultan's favour, and the princess reveals his secret» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 captain	det
4	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 son	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the captain	about captain's lost son	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

He had a fine voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voice	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a fine voice					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

Option 2

He had much less sense and was lost at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 less	advmod
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sense	amod
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lost	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 sea	case
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	less sense					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
2	lose	past · passive	He not said here			sea			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: at sea=Eventuality

Option 3

He had much less sense than the monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 less	advmod
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sense	amod
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 monkey	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 monkey	det
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	less sense				than the monkey	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He had much less sense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 less	advmod
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sense	amod
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	less sense					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient

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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