Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

Bruh, what did the crew do when they thought they were toast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: do, think, be · To what, where: crew, toast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 178 «Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea, then frees a boy from an underground tomb» 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	Bruh	bruh	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	7 do	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crew	det
6	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 thought	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 toast	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 toast	cop
13	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the crew	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Eventuality
2	do	present			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	they		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	they	toast	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Threw out cargo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Threw	compound:prt
3	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	past		cargo					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=Theme

Option 2

Prayed for mercy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prayed	pray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 mercy	case
3	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Prayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	participle						for mercy	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme

Option 3

Prayed to the sea and wrote their wills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prayed	pray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Prayed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrote	cc
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Prayed	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wills	nmod:poss
8	wills	will	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pray	participle			to the sea	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	write	past		their wills		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Theme
3	will		their = they			nom will «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wrote their wills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wills	nmod:poss
3	wills	will	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past		their wills					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Theme
2	will		their = they						nom will «cognition transitive»: poss=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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