Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Was the blind bloke's hit a proper big smack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hit · To what, where: proper big smack

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	aux:pass
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bloke	det
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bloke	amod
4	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bloke	case
6	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 smack	det
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 smack	amod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 smack	amod
10	smack	smack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past · passive		a proper big smack					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: smack=Co-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

yeah, a proper slap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a hard hit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, just a light tap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 tap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 tap	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tap	det
5	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tap	amod
6	tap	tap	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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