Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

How did Sindbad get to the island in the end, after he was left floating?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: get, leave, float · To what, where: end, Sindbad

This is test 13 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 island	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 island	det
7	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 left	punct
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 left	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 left	aux:pass
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 get	parataxis
16	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 left	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Sindbad		in the end	to the island result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to island=Result
2	leave	past · passive		Sindbad			tree rules
3	float	gerund	Sindbad not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «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

he clung to a broken oar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clung	nsubj
2	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 oar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 oar	det
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 oar	amod
6	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cling	past	he					to a broken oar	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to oar=Co-Theme
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

he swam ashore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	2 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	he					ashore property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he drifted on a bit of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drifted	nsubj
2	drifted	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bit	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drifted	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	past	he			a bit of wood			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bit=Trajectory

Option 4

he rode a wave to land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wave	det
4	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 land	mark
6	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rode	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he	a wave					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme
2	land	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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