Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad end…

wait, the hunchback rolled all the way down, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hunchback · What happens: wait, roll · To what, where: way

This is test 8 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rolled	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunchback	det
4	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolled	nsubj
5	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rolled	obj
9	down	down	ADV	_	5 rolled	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rolled	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll	past	the hunchback	all way				down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, to the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bottom	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bottom	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 bottom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

yeah, down the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stairs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stairs	punct
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 stairs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

yeah, all the way down the stairs to the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 stairs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stairs	det
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 way	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 cellar	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cellar	det
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stairs	nmod

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

Option 4

nah, he stopped halfway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	4 stopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he					halfway property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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