Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…
Dude, who carried the corpse to the palace?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: carry · To what, where: corpse, palace
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corpse | det |
| 6 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Dude | the corpse | the palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme to palace=Destination |
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
The purveyor and the merchant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 purveyor | det |
| 2 | purveyor | purveyor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 merchant | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purveyor | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The chief of police and his men carried the corpse on a litter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 police | case |
| 4 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chief | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 men | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 police | conj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 corpse | det |
| 10 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 litter | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 litter | det |
| 13 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the chief of police and chief's men | the corpse | a litter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme |
Option 3
The purveyor, the merchant, and the narrator's wife together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 purveyor | det |
| 2 | purveyor | purveyor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 merchant | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purveyor | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wife | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wife | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 narrator | det |
| 9 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 narrator | case |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purveyor | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 wife | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The doctor and the servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 servant | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 doctor | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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