Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…
What choked the hunchback?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: choke · To what, where: hunchback
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 choked | nsubj |
| 2 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunchback | det |
| 4 | hunchback | hunchback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 choked | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 choked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choke | past | the hunchback | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hunchback=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a bone in his throat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bone | det |
| 2 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 throat | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 throat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a knife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knife | det |
| 2 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a fish spine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spine | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spine | compound |
| 3 | spine | spine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a sharp fish bone lodged in his windpipe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bone | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bone | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bone | compound |
| 4 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bone | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 windpipe | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 windpipe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | windpipe | windpipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lodged | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lodge | participle | a sharp fish bone not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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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