Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, p…

Could he scramble up it or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: scramble up · To what, where: it

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 scramble	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scramble	nsubj
3	scramble	scramble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scramble	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 scramble	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scramble	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scramble up	could	he	it					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=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

Nope, no foot-hold at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 hold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 hold	det
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 foot	punct
6	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hold	nmod

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

Option 2

Nope, the surface was so smooth and round that he slid straight back down every time

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 smooth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 surface	det
4	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smooth	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smooth	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 smooth	advmod
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 round	cc
9	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 smooth	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 slid	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slid	nsubj
12	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 smooth	advcl
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 back	advmod
14	back	back	ADV	_	15 down	advmod
15	down	down	ADV	_	12 slid	advmod
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slid	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the surface		smooth property	tree rules
2	be		the surface not said here			tree rules
3	slide	past	he	time	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, but it slipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 slipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slipped	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 slipped	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slipped	nsubj
5	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	it						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

He tried, but no matter how hard he pushed there was not a single place to grip

The tree, 17 words

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 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pushed	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 pushed	cc
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 matter	det
6	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pushed	obl:unmarked
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hard	advmod
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 pushed	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pushed	nsubj
10	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pushed	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 place	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 place	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 place	amod
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pushed	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 grip	mark
18	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 place	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	He				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	push	past	he	no matter		hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	he not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grip	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/182-pg128-part22/t7/