Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

By what means was the giant's sight incapacitated?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, be, incapacitate · To what, where: sight

This is exam question 3 of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sight	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sight	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sight	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giant	case
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	incapacitated	incapacitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sight	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the giant's sight	tree rules
3	incapacitate	participle	the giant's sight not said here	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

stabbing with heavy rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stabbing	stab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 rocks	case
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rocks	amod
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 stabbing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	gerund						with heavy rocks	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rock=Instrument

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

blinding with heated spits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blinding	blind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 spits	case
3	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spits	amod
4	spits	spit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 blinding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	gerund						with heated spits	tree rules
2	heat	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

blinding with heated spits thrust into his eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blinding	blind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 thrust	case
3	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spits	amod
4	spits	spit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thrust	compound
5	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blinding	obl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 eye	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eye	nmod:poss
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blinding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	gerund				his eye		with spits thrust	tree rules
2	heat	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

by stabbing him with spits that were heated in the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 stabbing	mark
2	stabbing	stab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stabbing	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 spits	case
5	spits	spit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stabbing	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 heated	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heated	aux:pass
8	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spits	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	gerund		him = he				with spits	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with spit=Instrument
2	heat	past · passive		spits				in the fire	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in fire=Instrument

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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