Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…

No cap, who heard him yapping about his dreams?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, him, his · What happens: hear, yap, dream · To what, where: him

This is test 4 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	yapping	yap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 heard	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 dreams	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dreams	nmod:poss
10	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 yapping	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	no cap	him = he		tree rules
2	yap	gerund	him = he not said here		about his dreams	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dream=Topic
3	dream		his = he			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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

The baker down the lane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baker	det
2	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 lane	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lane	det
5	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 baker	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

His wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The tailor next door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 door	nsubj
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The tailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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