Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…
so the wind, did it bring them home?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wind · What happens: bring · To what, where: them
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wind | punct |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | obj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | the wind | them = they | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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 · ✓ the right answer
no, to a strange island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 island | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | amod |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yes, back home safely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 back | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 back | punct |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 back | advmod |
| 5 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 3 back | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
no, it carried them to a strange island far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 carried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carried | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 island | amod |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 carried | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | it | them = they | a strange island | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to island=Destination |
Option 4
no, to a far island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 island | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 island | punct |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 5 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 island | amod |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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