Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Bruv, why did the porter reckon he was in trouble with the boss man?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: porter, Bruv · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: trouble

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 reckon	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porter	det
6	porter	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 trouble	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 trouble	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 trouble	case
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 man	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	compound
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trouble	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the porter					Bruv vocative	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Bruv			trouble		with the boss man	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 · ✓ the right answer

his big mouth had upset Sindbad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mouth	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mouth	amod
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Sindbad	amod
6	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	his big mouth	upset Sindbad					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sindbad=Patient

Option 2

he was late

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he had moaned at the wrong bloke

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 moaned	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 moaned	aux
3	moaned	moan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 bloke	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moaned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	past · perfect	he					at the wrong bloke	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at bloke=Stimulus

Option 4

he broke a plate

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plate	det
4	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	he	a plate					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plate=Patient

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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