Test 14 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Who found him on the plain, like the lads with the horses?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find · To what, where: him, plain

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 plain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plain	det
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lads	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 lads	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lads	det
10	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 horses	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horses	det
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lads	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past		him = he		the plain		like the lads with the horses	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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

a shepherd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a groom of king Mihrage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 groom	det
2	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Mihrage	case
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Mihrage	nmod:desc
5	Mihrage	Mihrage	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 groom	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a servant of the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 servant	nmod

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

Option 4

a hunter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	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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