Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

Did the Barmecide's slaves bring any actual food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: slaves · What happens: bring · To what, where: actual food

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slaves	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Barmecide	det
3	Barmecide	Barmecide	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 slaves	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Barmecide	case
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	nsubj
6	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 food	det
8	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	the Barmecide's slaves	any actual food					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=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

yeah, some came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	some						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

some did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, none came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	none						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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