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title: By what means was the giant's sight incapacitated? — Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means was the giant's sight incapacitated? Exam question 3 of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

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By what means was the giant's sight incapacitated?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** mean, be, incapacitate · **To what, where:** sight

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/184-pg128-part24/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e3:1
# text = By what means was the giant's sight incapacitated?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	incapacitated	incapacitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the giant's sight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **incapacitate** | participle |  | the giant's sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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stabbing with heavy rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e3:o1:1
# text = stabbing with heavy rocks
1	stabbing	stab	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stab** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with heavy rocks | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rock=Instrument |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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blinding with heated spits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e3:o2:1
# text = blinding with heated spits
1	blinding	blind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	spits	spit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blind** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with heated spits | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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blinding with heated spits thrust into his eye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e3:o3:1
# text = blinding with heated spits thrust into his eye
1	blinding	blind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	spits	spit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blind** | gerund |  |  |  | his eye |  | with spits thrust | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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by stabbing him with spits that were heated in the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e3:o4:1
# text = by stabbing him with spits that were heated in the fire
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stabbing	stab	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spits	spit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stab** | gerund |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | with spits | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with spit=Instrument |
| 2 | **heat** | past · passive |  | spits |  |  |  | in the fire | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in fire=Instrument |

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