Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Wot did Aladdin do with his dagger, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 214 «Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part 1: the Caliph is stopped by a blind beggar who begs to be struck» 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 dagger	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dagger	nmod:poss
7	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	4 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Wot					with Aladdin's dagger	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

stabbed the magician in the heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 heart	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heart	det
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past		the magician		the heart			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent magician=Patient in heart=Location

Option 2

stabbed the guard in the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guard	det
3	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past		the guard		the back			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guard=Patient in back=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

stabbed the magician in the heart with his dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magician	det
3	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 heart	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heart	det
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 dagger	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dagger	nmod:poss
9	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past		the magician		the heart		with his dagger	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent magician=Patient with dagger=Instrument

Option 4

cut the rope near the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rope	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	the rope		the door			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product

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