Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, p…

So what made the big sea-thing dive, like, straight down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: big thing dive

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 182 «Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, part 22: Sindbad is stranded and finds a giant white egg» 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dive	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dive	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sea	punct
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dive	compound
9	dive	dive	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	3 made	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 down	punct
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 down	advmod
14	down	down	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the big thing dive				down property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dive=Product

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 fire was hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

It got scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	It					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fire lit on its back got too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
2	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Fire	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lit	obl
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	participle		Fire not said here		Fire's back			tree rules
2	get	past	Fire					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Smoke from a burning camp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 camp	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 camp	det
4	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 camp	amod
5	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smoke	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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