Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secre…

Why did the proprietor of the cookshop ultimately withdraw his protection from the narrator?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proprietor · What happens: do, withdraw, protect · To what, where: protection, narrator

This is exam question 4 of lesson 217 «Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secret midnight feast, a curse, and a dog in a cookshop» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 proprietor	det
4	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 withdraw	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cookshop	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cookshop	det
7	cookshop	cookshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proprietor	nmod
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	9 withdraw	advmod
9	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 protection	nmod:poss
11	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 withdraw	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 narrator	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 narrator	det
14	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 withdraw	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	withdraw	present	the proprietor of the cookshop	proprietor's protection	the narrator	ultimately property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent protection=Theme from narrator=Initial_Location
3	protect		proprietor				nom protection «act transitive»: poss=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

Because a customer complained about dogs in the shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 complained	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 customer	det
3	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 complained	nsubj
4	complained	complain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 complained	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 shop	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shop	det
9	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 complained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	participle	a customer			the shop		about dogs	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dog=Topic

Option 2

Because the neighbours complained that the dog was too noisy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 complained	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 complained	nsubj
4	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 noisy	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noisy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 noisy	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 noisy	advmod
10	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 complained	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	past	the neighbours						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the dog					noisy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Because he held all dogs to be unclean and defiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 held	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dogs	det
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 unclean	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 unclean	cop
8	unclean	unclean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 held	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 defiling	cc
10	defiling	defile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 unclean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	past	he	all dogs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	he not said here		unclean property	tree rules
3	defile	gerund	he not said here			tree rules

Option 4

Because he feared the dog would bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 feared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bite	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feared	obj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bite	aux
7	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	he	the dog					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
2	bite	would							vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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