Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

Was the hunchback dancing or sleeping when he died?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, sleep, die · To what, where: hunchback dancing

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dancing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dancing	det
3	hunchback	hunchback	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dancing	amod
4	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 sleeping	cc
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dancing	conj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 died	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sleeping	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dancing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the hunchback dancing	tree rules
2	sleep	gerund			tree rules
3	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 · ✓ the right answer

he was eating fish

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	3 eating	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eating	aux
3	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	obj

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

Option 2

he was singing a song

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	3 singing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	aux
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	he	a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3

he was drinking wine

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	3 drinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drinking	aux
3	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinking	obj

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

Option 4

he was singing and playing his drum loudly

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	3 singing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	aux
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 playing	cc
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 singing	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 drum	nmod:poss
7	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 playing	obj
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	he						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	play	gerund	he not said here	his drum				loudly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme

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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