Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

What did Sindbad flog to pay for his ship?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: flog, pay

This is test 10 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 flog	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flog	aux
3	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 flog	nsubj
4	flog	flog	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pay	mark
6	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flog	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 ship	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ship	nmod:poss
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pay	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 flog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flog	past · do-support	Sindbad						tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	Sindbad not said here					for Sindbad's ship	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for ship=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

his fine furniture and rugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 furniture	nmod:poss
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 furniture	amod
3	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rugs	cc
5	rugs	rug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 furniture	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

all his household goods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 goods	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 goods	nmod:poss
3	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goods	compound
4	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root

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

Option 3

all his household goods and the land his parents had left him near the city

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 goods	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 goods	nmod:poss
3	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goods	compound
4	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 left	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 land	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goods	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 parents	nmod:poss
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	iobj
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 city	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 city	det
15	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		his household goods and the land	him = he	the city			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute

Option 4

everything he owned, including his horses, gardens, and the great house on the river

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 owned	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owned	nsubj
3	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 horses	punct
5	including	including	ADP	_	7 horses	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horses	nmod:poss
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 owned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gardens	punct
9	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 horses	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 house	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 house	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 house	amod
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owned	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	he	everything					tree rules

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