Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…

Be real, what did the hunchback do before he died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real, he · What happens: be, do, die · To what, where: hunchback

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 real	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunchback	det
7	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 died	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 died	nsubj
11	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			real property	tree rules
2	do	past		the hunchback		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunchback=Eventuality
3	do	present	real			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die	past	he			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Ate too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

Option 2

Slept in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	participle				the hall			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location

Option 3

Ate a whole roast lamb and drank too much red wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lamb	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lamb	amod
4	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lamb	compound
5	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drank	cc
7	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ate	conj
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wine	amod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wine	amod
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		a whole roast lamb					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Patient
2	drink	past		much red wine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Drank too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past		much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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