Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Tale of the Hunchback, part 36: a hung…

Who found him and dragged him back to town?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find, drag back · To what, where: him, town

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dragged	cc
5	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dragged	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 dragged	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 town	case
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dragged	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		him = he					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	drag back	past		him = he		town			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to town=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

some passing soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 soldiers	det
2	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldiers	compound
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

a shepherd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a band of soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 band	det
2	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 soldiers	case
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 band	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a passing caravan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 caravan	det
2	passing	passing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 caravan	amod
3	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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