Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

Wait, why were the ten young men all blind in one eye?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ten young men · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: one eye

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blind	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 blind	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blind	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 men	nummod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blind	nsubj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 blind	advmod
10	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 eye	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 eye	nummod
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blind	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the ten young men			one eye		all, blind property	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

Nobody knew why, the old man never said a word about it to anyone at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 knew	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 word	det
11	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 word	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 anyone	case
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 said	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not say speech: assert	past	the old man	a word	anyone			about word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to anyone=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That was the weird bit nobody got

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bit	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bit	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bit	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	the weird bit					tree rules
2	get	past	nobody	the weird bit not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

Option 3

Nobody ever told him, it was just odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 told	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 odd	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 odd	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 odd	advmod
9	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Nobody		him = he		ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past	it					odd property	tree rules

Option 4

They were born like that, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 born	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 honestly	punct
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 born	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		They				like that; honestly property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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