Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…

wait, how did the blind dude fix his sin of greed?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 216 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse ends, and the Caliph questions the cruel young man» 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	_	8 fix	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fix	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fix	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dude	det
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dude	amod
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fix	nsubj
8	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sin	nmod:poss
10	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fix	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 greed	case
12	greed	greed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sin	nmod
13	?	?	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	fix	past · do-support	the blind dude	dude's sin of greed					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sin=Patient

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

people had to hit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hit	mark
4	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	people						tree rules
2	hit	to-infinitive	people not said here	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 2

people had to kick him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 kick	mark
4	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	people						tree rules
2	kick	to-infinitive	people not said here	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he gave money to beggars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 beggars	case
5	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	money	beggars				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to beggar=Recipient

Option 4

he paid fines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fines	fine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	he	fines					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset

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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