Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Man Who Became a Dog, part 57: a secre…

Ngl, what was she doing with that ghoul creature?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do

This is test 3 · ★ 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. 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 doing	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 creature	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 creature	det
9	ghoul	ghoul	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 creature	compound
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Ngl					with that ghoul creature	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Hiding a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		a letter					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Meeting her lover in secret and planning to poison her husband with the rice she had cooked

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lover	nmod:poss
3	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Meeting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 secret	case
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Meeting	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 planning	cc
7	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Meeting	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 poison	mark
9	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 planning	xcomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poison	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 rice	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rice	det
14	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poison	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cooked	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cooked	aux
17	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 rice	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	gerund		her lover	secret		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Co-Agent
2	plan	gerund					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	poison not said to happen	to-infinitive		her husband		with the rice	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent husband=Patient with rice=Instrument
4	cook	past · perfect	she	the rice not said here			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rice=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Digging up a dead body to eat it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Digging	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 body	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 body	amod
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Digging	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Digging	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	gerund		a dead body					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive		body					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Burying a stolen purse at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burying	bury	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 purse	det
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 purse	amod
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burying	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	gerund		a stolen purse			night		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme
2	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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