Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, p…

What was that massive white ball, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: massive white ball

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 ball	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ball	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 ball	mark
4	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ball	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ball	amod
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 anyway	punct
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 ball	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ball	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		massive white ball				anyway property	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

A stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A roc's egg, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 roc	det
2	roc	roc	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 egg	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 roc	case
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 egg	conj

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

Option 3

A giant melon, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 melon	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 melon	amod
3	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 melon	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melon	conj

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

Option 4

A huge pearl, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pearl	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pearl	amod
3	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pearl	conj

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

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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