Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

Mate, how long was he stuck on that island?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: stick · To what, where: he, island

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stuck	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 stuck	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuck	aux:pass
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stuck	nsubj
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Mate	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 island	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 island	det
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past · passive		he		that island		long property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on island=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

Like a whole month, proper ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 month	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 month	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 month	amod
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ages	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ages	amod
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 month	conj

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

Option 2

Like a whole month, proper ages, and I nearly went mad with it all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 month	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 month	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 month	amod
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ages	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ages	amod
7	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 month	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mad	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	I	all			month	mad, nearly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Ages and ages, like a whole year of misery stuck out there alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ages	cc
3	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ages	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 year	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ages	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 misery	case
10	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 year	nmod
11	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 year	acl
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 stuck	advmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stuck	advmod
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 stuck	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	participle		a whole year of misery not said here		there		alone, out property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

About a whole year, honestly innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	4 year	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 innit	advmod
7	innit	innit	PROPN	_	4 year	appos

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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