Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad end…

is the doctor a kid or a grown-up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: be, grow up · To what, where: kid

This is test 9 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kid	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kid	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 a	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	conj
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 a	acl
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 grown	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the doctor	a kid					tree rules
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

a grown-up doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 doctor	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 grown	compound:prt
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a grown-up doctor who lives on the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 doctor	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 grown	compound:prt
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lives	nsubj
7	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doctor	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	a grown doctor			the street			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on street=Location

Option 3

a young doctor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 doctor	amod
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a grown-up doctor with a wife and servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 doctor	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 grown	compound:prt
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doctor	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 servants	cc
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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