Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

wait, so the savages just took the whole ship?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, savages · What happens: wait, take · To what, where: whole ship

This is test 13 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 took	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 savages	det
5	savages	savage	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 took	advmod
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ship	amod
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the savages	the whole ship					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=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

yes, they took the whole ship and sailed it away together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ship	amod
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sailed	cc
9	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sailed	obj
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 sailed	advmod
12	together	together	ADV	_	9 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	the whole ship					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme
2	sail away	past	they not said here	ship				away, together property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, they sailed it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 sailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail away	past	they	it				away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

Option 3

yes, they took it home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	it				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

yep, they sailed it away to their own island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	nsubj
4	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sailed	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 sailed	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 island	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 island	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 island	amod
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail away	past	they	it		their own island		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to island=Trajectory

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