Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad end…

why'd the tailor and his wife wanna blame the doctor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tailor · What happens: blame · To what, where: doctor

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 blame	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 tailor	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blame	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wife	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tailor	nmod
8	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 wife	dep
9	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doctor	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blame	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 blame	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	infinitive	the tailor tailor's wife	the doctor					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=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

cuz they hated the doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hated	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hated	nsubj
3	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	cuz	the doctor					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cuz they were scared of jail and didn't want the blame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 jail	case
6	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 want	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 want	advmod
10	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 blame	det
12	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz					of jail; scared property	tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	cuz not said here	the blame					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blame=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cuz they were scared of jail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 jail	case
6	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz					of jail; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

cuz they were scared of ghosts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ghosts	case
6	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cuz					of ghosts; scared property	tree rules

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