Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

bruv, why did the merchants chuck meat down the cliffs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchants · What happens: chuck · To what, where: meat

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chuck	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chuck	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chuck	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 merchants	det
6	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chuck	nsubj
7	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 bruv	conj
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 cliffs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cliffs	det
11	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past · do-support	the merchants	meat				down the cliffs	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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

so the eagles would fight them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 fight	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagles	det
3	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fight	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fight	aux
5	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	would	the eagles	them = they					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to make the eagles fly down, grab the meat, and bring the diamonds back up

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bring	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eagles	det
4	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	parataxis
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 fly	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grab	punct
8	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fly	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meat	det
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grab	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bring	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bring	cc
13	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 diamonds	det
15	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bring	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	17 up	advmod
17	up	up	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	fly down	present	the eagles		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grab	infinitive	the eagles not said here	the meat	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
4	bring	imperative	you not said here	the diamonds	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to get the eagles to grab diamonds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eagles	det
4	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grab	mark
6	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 get	advcl
7	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		the eagles					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus
2	grab	to-infinitive		diamonds					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme

Option 4

to make the snakes come out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snakes	det
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	ccomp
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	come out	present	the snakes					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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