Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Where did the lads set sail from, like which port?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lads · What happens: set · To what, where: sail, port

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 set	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lads	det
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 port	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 port	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 port	case
10	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	11 port	det
11	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · do-support	the lads	sail		which port			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result

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 port of Balsora on the Persian Gulf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 port	det
2	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Balsora	case
4	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 port	nmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 Gulf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gulf	det
7	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Gulf	compound
8	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 port	nmod

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

Option 2

Cairo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Balsora

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Damascus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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