Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

What did the dog do with the fake coin?

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

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 coin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coin	det
8	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coin	amod
9	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the dog					with the fake coin	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

Barked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ate it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Put his paw on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 paw	nmod:poss
3	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	his paw		paw			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on it=Destination

Option 4

Gave it back to baker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gave	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Gave	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 baker	case
5	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	past		it	baker				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to baker=Recipient

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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