Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15:…

Ok, what did the sailors shout, hammer or sea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: do, shout · To what, where: hammer

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 175 «Arabian Nights, The Envious Man and the Dervish, part 15: the dervish is saved by fairies, the cat's hairs are burned, and the narrator is turned into a monkey» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sailors	det
6	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shout	nsubj
7	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hammer	punct
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shout	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sea	cc
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hammer	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	present	the sailors	hammer or sea					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=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

Only the word hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 hammer	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hammer	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hammer	compound
4	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both ideas were shouted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 ideas	det
2	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shouted	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shouted	aux:pass
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · passive		both ideas					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 3

Hammer was the cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hammer	Hammer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cry	det
4	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Hammer	the cry					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They shouted to throw him overboard and to hammer him into the mast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 throw	mark
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shouted	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	4 throw	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hammer	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hammer	mark
9	hammer	hammer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hammer	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 mast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mast	det
13	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hammer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	They			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	throw	to-infinitive	They not said here	him = he	overboard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	hammer	to-infinitive	They not said here	him = he	into the mast result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into mast=Result

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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