Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Mate, what was the porter whinging about, saying his grub was rank?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, porter · What happens: be, whing, say · To what, where: porter, grub, Mate rank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rank	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 porter	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 porter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 porter	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porter	det
6	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	whinging	whing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 porter	acl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 whinging	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 whinging	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grub	nmod:poss
12	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rank	cop
14	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 rank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the porter	the porter		tree rules
2	whing	gerund	the porter not said here		about property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the porter not said here	his grub		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grub=Topic
4	is a	past		Mate rank		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 scraps off the posh lads' plates every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scraps	det
2	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	8 plates	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lads	det
5	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lads	amod
6	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plates	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 lads	case
8	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scraps	nmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scraps	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

mouldy barley cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mouldy	mouldy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cakes	amod
2	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cakes	compound
3	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

bad barley bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bread	amod
2	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	compound
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

stale nosh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nosh	amod
2	nosh	nosh	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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