Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Wasn't the porter well jelly of Sindbad's easy life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: porter

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 porter	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 porter	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porter	det
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 jelly	advmod
6	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 porter	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
8	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 life	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Sindbad	case
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 life	amod
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jelly	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 porter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		the porter					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

he was dead jealous mate

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	5 mate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mate	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	dead jealous mate					tree rules

Option 2

he fancied Sindbad's lot

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 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lot	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Sindbad	case
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	he	Sindbad's lot					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the porter envied Sindbad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 envied	nsubj
3	envied	envy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 envied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	envy	past	the porter	Sindbad					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sindbad=Stimulus

Option 4

he was skint

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	3 skint	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 skint	cop
3	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					skint property	tree rules

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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