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

Why'd the meat man chuck him the big bits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: meat man · What happens: chuck · To what, where: big bits, him

This is test 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. 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	6 chuck	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 chuck	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	nsubj
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bits	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bits	amod
10	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chuck	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	would	the meat man	the big bits	him = he				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bit=Theme

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

Dog looked hungry and needed food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 needed	cc
5	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Dog					hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	need	past	Dog not said here	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dog hadn't scoffed since yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scoffed	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 scoffed	advmod
4	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	since	since	ADP	_	6 yesterday	case
6	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not scoff	past · perfect · passive		Dog			yesterday		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Dog hadn't eaten a bite since the day before and looked skinny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bite	det
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obj
7	since	since	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obl
10	before	before	ADV	_	4 eaten	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
13	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect · passive		Dog			day	before property	tree rules
2	look	past		skinny					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skinny=Attribute

Option 4

The poor dog was starving all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 starving	aux
5	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starving	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	the poor dog				day		tree rules

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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