Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

How did the barber bring the hunchback back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: barber · What happens: bring back · To what, where: hunchback

This is test 14 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bring	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 barber	det
4	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	nsubj
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunchback	det
7	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past · do-support	the barber	the hunchback					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hunchback=Theme

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

rubbed oil on his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 oil	amod
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oil	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	participle							vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 2

gave him wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	iobj
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		wine	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wine=Theme

Option 3

poured cold water on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 poured	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 poured	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past		cold water				on him = he	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

rubbed balsam on his neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 balsam	amod
2	balsam	balsam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 neck	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 neck	nmod:poss
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 balsam	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	participle							vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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