Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the…

Was the crowd cheering or mocking him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crowd · What happens: be, cheer, mock · To what, where: crowd, him

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 212 «Arabian Nights, Aladdin, part 52: the magician tricks the princess into giving up the lamp, and the palace vanishes to Africa» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crowd	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	cheering	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 crowd	acl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 mocking	cc
6	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cheering	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mocking	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 crowd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the crowd	tree rules
2	cheer	gerund	the crowd not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	mock	gerund	the crowd not said here	him = he	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

Laughing at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund						at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mocking him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Mocking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	gerund		him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Ignoring him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignoring	ignore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignoring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	gerund		him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Cheering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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