Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

Bro, why was Sinbad hiding up in that tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sinbad · What happens: hide up · To what, where: tree

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hiding	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hiding	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hiding	aux
5	Sinbad	Sinbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hiding	nsubj
6	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Bro	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 hiding	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hiding	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide up	past · progressive	Sinbad			that tree			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

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

Hiding from ghosts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 ghosts	case
3	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund				ghosts			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from ghost=Beneficiary

Option 2

Scared, dunno

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Scared	punct
3	dunno	dunno	INTJ	_	1 Scared	discourse

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

Option 3

He wanted to watch the sea from up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 watch	mark
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 up	case
8	up	up	ADV	_	4 watch	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 up	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the sea					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was scared the old man would blame him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blame	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 blame	aux
8	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	blame	would	the old man	him = he					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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