Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

yo, how did sindbad even get out of the snake valley?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sindbad, get out · To what, where: snake valley

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 183 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escapes the diamond valley on an eagle's meat and sails home with the merchants.» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 sindbad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sindbad	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sindbad	aux
5	sindbad	sindbad	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sindbad	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	12 valley	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 valley	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 valley	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 valley	compound
12	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sindbad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sindbad	past · do-support							tree rules
2	get out	infinitive		the snake valley					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

on an eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	3 eagle	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

he tied himself to a giant bird

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 tied	nsubj
2	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 tied	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	he	himself = he				to a giant bird	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to bird=Co-Patient

Option 3

he clung to an eagle's leg with meat

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 clung	nsubj
2	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 leg	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 eagle	det
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leg	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 eagle	case
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clung	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 meat	case
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leg	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cling	past	he					to a eagle's leg with meat	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to leg=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he rode an eagle with meat on his back

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 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 eagle	det
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	he	a eagle		eagle's back		with meat	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=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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