Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Agib, part 18: Agib escapes the sea…

No cap, what did Agib grab to stop himself drowning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Agib · What happens: grab, stop, drown · To what, where: cap, Agib

This is test 3 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 grab	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 grab	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grab	aux
6	Agib	Agib	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grab	nsubj
7	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	appos
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stop	mark
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grab	xcomp
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 stop	obj
11	drowning	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grab	past · do-support	Agib	no cap	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	Agib not said here	Agib	tree rules
3	drown	gerund	Agib not said here		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

A wooden barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 barrel	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 barrel	amod
3	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A floating plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plank	det
2	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 plank	amod
3	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A broken plank of wood from the deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plank	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 plank	amod
3	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plank	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 deck	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deck	det
8	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plank	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

A piece of rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rope	case
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

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

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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