Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 23: Sindbad escap…

bro, what happens to a camphor tree when they tap it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: happen, tap · To what, where: tree

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happens	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 tap	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tap	nsubj
11	tap	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happens	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tap	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to a camphor tree; bro vocative	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tap	present	they	tree					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

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

it bleeds white sap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bleeds	nsubj
2	bleeds	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sap	amod
4	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bleeds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleed	present	it	white sap					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sap=Source

Option 2

the sap hardens into a clear gum that drips to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sap	det
2	sap	SAP	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hardens	nsubj
3	hardens	harden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 gum	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gum	det
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gum	amod
7	gum	gum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hardens	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 drips	nsubj
9	drips	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gum	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drips	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harden	present	the sap			a clear gum			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	drip	present	a clear gum			the ground			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=Location

Option 3

its leaves fall off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 leaves	nmod:poss
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
3	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	present	its leaves						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it withers up and dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 withers	nsubj
2	withers	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 withers	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dies	cc
5	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 withers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wither up	present	it						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	die	present							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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