Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Yo, who was the bloke stood outside that massive gaff, like, wondering who lived there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bloke · What happens: be, stand, wonder, live · To what, where: bloke, massive gaff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 181 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the porter is summoned to Sindbad's feast and hears how the voyages began» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 bloke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bloke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bloke	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 gaff	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 gaff	det
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gaff	amod
11	gaff	gaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wondering	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	15 wondering	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wondering	punct
15	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stood	advcl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lived	nsubj
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wondering	ccomp
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 lived	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the bloke		tree rules
2	stand	past	the bloke		that massive gaff	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside gaff=Location
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the bloke not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	live	past			there	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the bloke from the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bloke	nmod

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

Option 2

Sindbad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the porter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hindbad the porter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hindbad	Hindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 porter	det
3	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hindbad	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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