Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad end…

By what means did the tailor and his wife seek to avert the consequences of the hunchback's death?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, hunchback · What happens: mean, do, seek, avert, die · To what, where: tailor, consequences · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 191 «Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad ends his last voyage, and a hunchback dies at supper» 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	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seek	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seek	nsubj
10	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 avert	mark
12	avert	avert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seek	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 consequences	det
14	consequences	consequence	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 avert	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 death	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hunchback	det
17	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 death	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 hunchback	case
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 consequences	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the tailor	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Eventuality
3	seek	infinitive	tailor's wife		tree rules
4	avert not said to happen	to-infinitive	tailor's wife not said here	the consequences of the hunchback's death	tree rules
5	die		the hunchback		nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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

by bribing the nearby guard quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 bribing	mark
2	bribing	bribe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guard	det
4	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guard	amod
5	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bribing	obj
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 bribing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bribe	gerund		the nearby guard				quietly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient

Option 2

by transferring suspicion to the doctor and fleeing the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 transferring	mark
2	transferring	transfer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transferring	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 doctor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transferring	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fleeing	cc
8	fleeing	flee	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 transferring	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fleeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transfer	gerund		suspicion	the doctor				vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent suspicion=Theme to doctor=Recipient
2	flee	gerund		the city					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Initial_Location

Option 3

by transferring suspicion to the doctor and his household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 transferring	mark
2	transferring	transfer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transferring	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 doctor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transferring	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 household	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 household	nmod:poss
9	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doctor	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transfer	gerund		suspicion	the doctor and his household				vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent suspicion=Theme to doctor=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by transferring suspicion to the doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 transferring	mark
2	transferring	transfer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transferring	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 doctor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transferring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transfer	gerund		suspicion	the doctor				vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent suspicion=Theme to doctor=Recipient

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