Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…

Ngl, what did the doctor think he'd done?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: think, do · To what, where: Ngl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 193 «Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 think	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ngl	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj
9	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 think	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the doctor	Ngl					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	doctor						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Robbed the merchant's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 merchant	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Robbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	participle		the merchant's son					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Source

Option 2

Stabbed the tailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past		the tailor					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Killed the hunchback

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hunchback	det
3	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		the hunchback					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunchback=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Poisoned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poisoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	participle		him = he					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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