Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

How did the dog say thanks for the bread?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: say · To what, where: thanks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bread	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bread	det
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thanks	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the dog	thanks				for the bread	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic

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

He barked

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 barked	nsubj
2	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	He						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bowed head, wagged tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 head	amod
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wagged	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 head	punct
4	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wagged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	participle							vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wag	past	Bowed head	tail					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

Option 3

Tail up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tail	tail	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Tail	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tail up	imperative	you not said here						vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Dropped head, licked hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 head	amod
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 licked	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 head	punct
4	licked	lick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hand	amod
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	participle							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	lick	participle							vn chew-39.2 «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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