Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad end…

yo, a porter is like a dude who lugs stuff for money, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: porter, dude · What happens: be, lug · To what, where: stuff

This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 porter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 porter	det
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dude	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dude	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 dude	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dude	det
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lugs	nsubj
10	lugs	lug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dude	acl:relcl
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lugs	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 money	case
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lugs	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lugs	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	10 lugs	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a porter					like a dude	tree rules
2	lug	present	a dude	stuff				for money	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

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

yeah, hauls stuff for cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 hauls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hauls	punct
3	hauls	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hauls	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 cash	case
6	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hauls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haul	present		stuff				for cash	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 2

yeah, carries stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 carries	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 carries	punct
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present		stuff					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, carries loads for pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 carries	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 carries	punct
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carries	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 pay	case
6	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present		loads				for pay	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme

Option 4

nah, sells food at market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 sells	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sells	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 market	case
6	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present		food		market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent food=Theme at market=Asset

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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