Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

Did the roc actually drop him or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, drop · To what, where: roc

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 179 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident in the cave, then a lonely walk to a copper castle» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roc	det
3	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 drop	advmod
5	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drop	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 drop	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the roc					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roc=Eventuality
2	drop	present		roc				actually property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

Option 1

Nah, it carried him high up and set him down gently on a mountain top far away

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 set	cc
9	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carried	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 set	compound:prt
12	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 top	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 top	det
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	compound
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	obl
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	4 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	it	him = he		a mountain top		away, gently property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	set down	infinitive		him = he					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it carried him up and set him on a mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 carried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 carried	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carried	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 mountain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mountain	det
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry up	past	it	him = he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	set	infinitive		him = he		a mountain			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on mountain=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, it dropped him in the sea below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
9	below	below	ADV	_	8 sea	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	it	him = he		the sea			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sea=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it dropped him from the sky onto the rocks below, but he survived somehow

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 rocks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rocks	det
11	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropped	obl
12	below	below	ADV	_	11 rocks	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 survived	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 survived	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 survived	nsubj
16	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	conj
17	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	16 survived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	it	him = he		the sky		onto the rocks	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme from sky=Destination onto rock=Initial_Location
2	survive	past	he					somehow property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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