Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 19: a sad accident…

What was the black gunk they smeared on their faces?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black gunk, they · What happens: be, smear · To what, where: black gunk, faces

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gunk	det
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gunk	amod
5	gunk	gunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 smeared	nsubj
7	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gunk	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 faces	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 faces	nmod:poss
10	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 smeared	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the black gunk						tree rules
2	smear	past	they	the black gunk not said here		their faces			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gunk=Theme on face=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 · ✓ the right answer

Ashes, coal-dust and lamp-black, all mixed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 all	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dust	punct
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dust	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 coal	punct
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ashes	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 black	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 lamp	punct
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dust	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ashes	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
12	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 all	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle							vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ashes, coal-dust and lamp-black, mixed with blood and sea salt from the shore

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dust	punct
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dust	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 coal	punct
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ashes	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 black	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 lamp	punct
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dust	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mixed	punct
11	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ashes	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 blood	case
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mixed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 salt	cc
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 salt	compound
16	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blood	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 shore	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shore	det
19	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 salt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		Ashes not said here				with blood and sea salt from the shore	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with blood=Co-Patient

Option 3

Ashes, coal-dust and lamp-black, all mixed together with some kind of old goat fat

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dust	punct
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dust	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 coal	punct
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ashes	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 black	cc
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 black	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 lamp	punct
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dust	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kind	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 kind	nsubj
12	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 kind	amod
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 mixed	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 kind	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 kind	det
16	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dust	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 fat	case
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fat	amod
19	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fat	compound
20	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle						together property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Soot and oil from the castle lamps, mixed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 oil	cc
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Soot	conj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 lamps	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamps	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lamps	compound
7	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Soot	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mixed	punct
9	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lamps	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 mixed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix up	participle		the castle lamps not said here					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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