Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Eh, what was the island really, the thing they all thought was land?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Eh, they · What happens: be, think · To what, where: island, thing, land

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Eh	Eh	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 land	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 island	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 island	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 island	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eh	appos
7	really	really	ADV	_	6 island	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eh	appos
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 they	det
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	acl:relcl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 land	cop
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 land	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Eh	the island	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	they	the thing not said here	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
3	is a	past	Eh	land	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 · ✓ the right answer

a sleeping whale's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	compound
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 whale	case
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a sandy isle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 isle	det
2	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 isle	amod
3	isle	isle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a grassy island in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 island	det
2	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 island	amod
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 island	nmod

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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