--- title: why'd the tailor and his wife wanna blame the doctor? — Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback,… · tree and pragmatics description: why'd the tailor and his wife wanna blame the doctor? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 191 «Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad ends his last voyage, and a hunchback dies at supper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/191-pg128-part31/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/191-pg128-part31/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad end… why'd the tailor and his wife wanna blame the doctor? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tailor · **What happens:** blame · **To what, where:** doctor This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 191 «Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad ends his last voyage, and a hunchback dies at supper» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/191-pg128-part31/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:191-pg128-part31:t6:1 # text = why'd the tailor and his wife wanna blame the doctor? 1 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd 'd PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 wanna wanna X FW Foreign=Yes 7 dep _ _ 9 blame blame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blame** | infinitive | the tailor tailor's wife | the doctor | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} cuz they hated the doctor ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:191-pg128-part31:t6:o1:1 # text = cuz they hated the doctor 1 cuz cuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hated hate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hate** | past | cuz | the doctor | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} cuz they were scared of jail and didn't want the blame ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:191-pg128-part31:t6:o2:1 # text = cuz they were scared of jail and didn't want the blame 1 cuz cuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 jail jail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | cuz | | | | | of jail; scared *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | cuz *not said here* | the blame | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blame=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} cuz they were scared of jail ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:191-pg128-part31:t6:o3:1 # text = cuz they were scared of jail 1 cuz cuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 jail jail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | cuz | | | | | of jail; scared *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} cuz they were scared of ghosts ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:191-pg128-part31:t6:o4:1 # text = cuz they were scared of ghosts 1 cuz cuz NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | cuz | | | | | of ghosts; scared *property* | 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. 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