Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

Why did the prince get all the rich dude's stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: get · To what, where: stuff

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 stuff	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dude	amod
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stuff	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 dude	case
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the prince	the rich dude's stuff					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stuff=Stimulus

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 guy had no money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the guy	no money					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

Option 2

no one knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	no one						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

he stole it

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	he	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the guy had no heirs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 heirs	det
5	heirs	heir	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the guy	no heirs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heir=Patient

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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