Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

Wait, so Noureddin got battered with a stick on the soles of his feet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, batter · To what, where: Noureddin

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 210 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy's plot nearly kills Noureddin, but the vizir arrives in time» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 battered	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 battered	advmod
4	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 battered	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 battered	aux:pass
6	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 battered	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 soles	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soles	det
12	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stick	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 soles	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	batter	past · passive		Noureddin				with a stick on the soles of Noureddin's feet	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with stick=Instrument

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

Yep, he got a proper caning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 caning	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 caning	amod
7	caning	caning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	a proper caning					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caning=Stimulus

Option 2

Yeah, a proper bastinado on the soles of his feet, mate, till he nearly died

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bastinado	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bastinado	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bastinado	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bastinado	amod
5	bastinado	bastinado	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 soles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soles	det
8	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bastinado	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 soles	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bastinado	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 died	nsubj
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 died	advmod
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bastinado	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	he					nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a proper bastinado, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bastinado	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bastinado	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bastinado	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bastinado	amod
5	bastinado	bastinado	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bastinado	conj

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

Option 4

Yeah, on his back with a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 back	punct
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	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 rope	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rope	det
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod

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

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