Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 21: Hindbad the p…

Where did Sindbad sit at that massive feast, like top of the table?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: sit · To what, where: massive feast

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 sit	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
3	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sit	nsubj
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 feast	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 feast	det
7	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feast	amod
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 top	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 top	case
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	Sindbad			that massive feast		like top of the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location

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

right next to the big cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	right	right	ADV	_	2 next	advmod
2	next	next	ADV	_	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 cook	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	amod
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 next	obl

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

Option 2

right up at the head, on the best cushion, next to the boss and his guests

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	right	right	ADV	_	2 up	advmod
2	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 up	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cushion	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 cushion	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cushion	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 cushion	amod
10	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 head	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boss	punct
12	next	next	ADV	_	15 boss	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 boss	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boss	det
15	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cushion	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 guests	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 guests	nmod:poss
18	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 head	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

in the place of honour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

by the lamp, near the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 lamp	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lamp	det
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 window	punct
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lamp	conj

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

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