Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20:…

Wait, what knocked out his right eye, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, knock out · To what, where: right eye

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 180 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Three Calenders, part 20: the Golden Door is opened, a flying horse carries the narrator off and blinds his right eye» 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	_	4 knocked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 knocked	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eye	nmod:poss
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	amod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eye	appos
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	knock out	past		his right eye					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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

the horse's hind legs kicking the terrace wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legs	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 legs	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
8	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wall	compound
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kicking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	gerund	the horse's hind legs not said here	the terrace wall					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wall=Patient

Option 2

the horse's tail as it spun around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spun	nsubj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 spun	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spun	nsubj
7	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	around	around	ADV	_	7 spun	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin around	past	the horse's tail					around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the horse's wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wing	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the horse's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 horse	case
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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