Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 1: the blind man's curse…

so how did the caliph feel about the blind man's story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: caliph · What happens: feel

This is test 11 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 feel	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feel	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feel	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 caliph	det
5	caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	nsubj
6	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	12 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 story	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 man	case
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feel	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the caliph					about the blind man's story	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about story=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

he pardoned him and gave him money

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 pardoned	nsubj
2	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pardoned	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gave	cc
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pardoned	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pardon	past	he	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	give	past	he not said here	money	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme

Option 2

he thought the story was fake and cruel

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fake	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fake	cop
6	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cruel	cc
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the story	fake property	tree rules
3	be		the story not said here		tree rules

Option 3

he doubted him and ran away

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 doubted	nsubj
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubted	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubted	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	past	he	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	run away	past	he not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he pardoned him, gave him money, and sent him home with a guard

The tree, 13 words

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 pardoned	nsubj
2	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pardoned	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pardoned	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sent	cc
10	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pardoned	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sent	obj
12	home	home	ADV	_	10 sent	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 guard	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 guard	det
15	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pardon	past	he	him = he			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	give	past	he not said here	money	him = he		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme
3	send	past	he not said here	him = he		with a guard; home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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