Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, part…

Wot did the lad do to his horse in the square?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot · What happens: do · To what, where: square

This is test 5 · ★ 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	5 do	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lad	det
4	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 square	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 square	det
11	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Wot			the square		to lad's horse	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 · ← Mova's choice

fed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past		it					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

whipped it till it bled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 whipped	obj
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 bled	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bled	nsubj
5	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 whipped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	past		it					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent it=Material
2	bleed	past	it						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3

kicked it till it fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 kicked	obj
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 fell	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 kicked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	fall	past	it						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

beat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

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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