Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

so the ground was covered in what, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: cover · To what, where: ground

This is test 6 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 covered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 covered	aux:pass
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 covered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the ground					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in what=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

diamonds, loads of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loads	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 diamonds	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loads	nmod

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

Option 2

bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

snakes and dry bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bones	cc
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bones	amod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 snakes	conj

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

Option 4

sand and rocky shards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shards	cc
3	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shards	amod
4	shards	shard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sand	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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