Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the…

Which bit did the old woman do, sick?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bit, old woman · What happens: do · To what, where: old woman

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1773 «Arabian Nights, Sultan Darai and the Gazelle, part 24: the gazelle slays the seven-headed snake» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sick	punct
9	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which bit	the old woman					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
2	do	present	the old woman not said here						vn act-114-1 «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

Took the gazelle to the palace garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garden	compound
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		the gazelle		the palace garden			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme to garden=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fanned the gazelle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fanned	fan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fanned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fan	participle		the gazelle					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sprinkled some scent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 scent	det
3	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sprinkled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	participle		some scent					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scent=Theme

Option 4

Sprinkled fresh scent all over herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 scent	amod
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scent	amod
3	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 herself	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 herself	case
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 scent	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	participle							vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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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