Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

Ugh, why did the barber dip out of Bagdad for years?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: barber dip, Bagdad

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 196 «Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hungry brother eats an imaginary feast, and the barber revives the dead hunchback» 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dip	det
6	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dip	compound
7	dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 Bagdad	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Bagdad	case
10	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dip	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the barber dip		Bagdad	year		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dip=Eventuality

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

his wife told him to go

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	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	his wife		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	his wife not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the Caliph sent him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past	the Caliph	him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Caliph told him to bounce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bounce	mark
6	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Caliph		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bounce not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Caliph not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he got into a fight with the Caliph's guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 fight	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 guards	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Caliph	det
8	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 guards	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Caliph	case
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he			a fight		with the Caliph's guards	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into fight=Destination

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