Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad end…

what's the hunchback doing before he gets to the tailor's?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hunchback, he · What happens: be, do, get

This is test 4 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunchback	det
4	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hunchback	acl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 gets	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 tailor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tailor	det
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	obl
12	's	's	PART	_	11 tailor	case
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the hunchback		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the hunchback not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	present	he	to the tailor result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tailor=Result

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

walkin home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walkin	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 walkin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund						home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

singin and bangin his tambourine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singin	singin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bangin	cc
3	bangin	bangin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singin	conj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tambourine	nmod:poss
5	tambourine	tambourine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singin	appos

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

Option 3

sleepin by the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sleepin	sleepin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 wall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sleepin	nmod

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

Option 4

dancin and bangin a drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancin	dancin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bangin	cc
3	bangin	bangin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dancin	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drum	det
5	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dancin	appos

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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