Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

lowkey scary, what was that snake doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» 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	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	2 scary	advmod
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 doing	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	aux
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 doing	mark
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	compound
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 scary	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 scary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

gliding over the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 sand	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	gerund				the sand			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sand=Trajectory

Option 2

gliding over the sand toward the sleeping men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 sand	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sand	det
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gliding	obl
5	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 men	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
7	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 men	compound
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	gerund				the sand		toward the sleeping men	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over sand=Trajectory

Option 3

gliding slowly over the sand and hissing loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 gliding	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 sand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sand	det
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gliding	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hissing	cc
7	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 gliding	conj
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	7 hissing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	gerund				the sand		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sand=Trajectory
2	hiss	gerund						loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

crawling in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crawling	crawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 grass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 crawling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	gerund				the grass			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Trajectory

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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