Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Story of the Hunchback, part 32: a dea…
so the Sultan said no mercy for a Christian who kills a Mussulman?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sultan, mercy · What happens: say, kill · To what, where: mercy, Mussulman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 192 «Arabian Nights, The Story of the Hunchback, part 32: a dead hunchback is passed from house to house, and three innocent men nearly hang» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 mercy | det |
| 6 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Christian | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Christian | det |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mercy | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 kills | nsubj |
| 11 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mercy | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Mussulman | det |
| 13 | Mussulman | mussulman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kills | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan | no mercy | for a Christian | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mercy=Topic | |||
| 2 | kill | present | no mercy | a Mussulman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussulman=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
nah, a fine was enough for that one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 enough | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fine | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enough | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enough | cop |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enough | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a fine | for that one; enough property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he said mercy is allowed but only if the killer converts to the faith first
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 allowed | aux:pass |
| 7 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 converts | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 converts | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 converts | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 killer | det |
| 12 | killer | killer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 converts | nsubj |
| 13 | converts | convert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 allowed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 faith | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 faith | det |
| 16 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 converts | obl |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 converts | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | mercy | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | convert a condition, not said to happen | present | the killer | to the faith result; first property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to faith=Result |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yup, straight up no pardon, just do your job
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pardon | punct |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 pardon | advmod |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pardon | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 pardon | det |
| 6 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 yup | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 yup | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 job | nmod:poss |
| 11 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | your job | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | job | your | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
yup, he said a Christian gets no mercy ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yup | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Christian | det |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 mercy | det |
| 9 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 gets | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | yup vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | present | a Christian | no mercy | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mercy=Stimulus |
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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