Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

Why did the dog eat the bread slowly, according to his own account?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: eat, accord, account · To what, where: bread

This is exam question 3 of lesson 218 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coins and is freed by a magician's daughter» 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	5 eat	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bread	det
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 according	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 account	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 according	fixed
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 account	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 account	amod
14	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support	the dog	the bread	accord dog's own account; slowly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	account		dog			nom account «communication 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 · ✓ the right answer

To signal he accepted it as courtesy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 signal	mark
2	signal	signal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 accepted	advcl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accepted	nsubj
4	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accepted	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 courtesy	case
7	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accepted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signal speech: other	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	accept	past	he	it				as courtesy	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as courtesy=Attribute

Option 2

He was full

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	3 full	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					full property	tree rules

Option 3

Because he wanted to be polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 polite	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 polite	cop
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					polite property	tree rules

Option 4

To show it was polite to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 polite	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 polite	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 polite	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	polite property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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