Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor, p…

Ahh, what was the bird that came swooping in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: be, come, swoop · To what, where: bird

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ahh	ahh	INTJ	_	6 bird	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 bird	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	acl:relcl
9	swooping	swoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 swooping	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the bird	tree rules
2	come	past	the bird		tree rules
3	swoop	gerund	the bird not said here		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 · ✓ the right answer

A roc, huge like a thundercloud

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	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 huge	punct
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roc	amod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 thundercloud	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thundercloud	det
7	thundercloud	thundercloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 huge	obl

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

Option 2

A giant hawk, dark and fierce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hawk	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hawk	amod
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hawk	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fierce	cc
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dark	conj

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

Option 3

A flock of huge crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flock	det
2	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 crows	case
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crows	amod
5	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flock	nmod

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

Option 4

A bird so enormous that it seemed to blot out the sun above the entire island

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enormous	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 enormous	advmod
4	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 seemed	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seemed	nsubj
7	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enormous	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 blot	mark
9	blot	blot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seemed	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 blot	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blot	obj
13	above	above	ADP	_	16 island	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 island	det
15	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 island	amod
16	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sun	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	it						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	blot out	to-infinitive		the sun		the entire island			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination

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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