Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Who grabbed the porter by the arm and dragged him in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: grab, drag · To what, where: porter, him

This is test 5 · ★ 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 grabbed	nsubj
2	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porter	det
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 arm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 arm	det
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dragged	cc
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grabbed	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dragged	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	9 dragged	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 grabbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past		the porter				by the arm	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porter=Theme
2	drag	past		him = he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 · ✓ the right answer

a servant from the palace

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	from	from	ADP	_	5 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 servant	nmod

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

Option 2

a big servant who grabbed him by the scruff and shoved him through the massive doors

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoved	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grabbed	nsubj
5	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 servant	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grabbed	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 scruff	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scruff	det
9	scruff	scruff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grabbed	cc
11	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shoved	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 doors	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 doors	det
15	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 doors	amod
16	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shoved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	a big servant	servant				by the scruff	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	shove	past	a big servant	him = he		the massive doors			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme through door=Destination

Option 3

a servant from the mansion

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	from	from	ADP	_	5 mansion	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mansion	det
5	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 servant	nmod

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

Option 4

some bloke in livery who came running out of the big house and hauled him in by the arm

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 livery	case
4	livery	livery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bloke	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hauled	cc
14	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hauled	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	14 hauled	compound:prt
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 arm	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 arm	det
19	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hauled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	some bloke in livery				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	some bloke in livery not said here		the big house		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory
3	haul in	past	some bloke in livery not said here	bloke		by the arm	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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