Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…
how did they even blind that giant?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 blind | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blind | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 blind | advmod |
| 5 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 giant | mark |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blind | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 blind | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
they poked him with spears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 poked | nsubj |
| 2 | poked | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 poked | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 spears | case |
| 5 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 poked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poke | past | they | him = he | with spears | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme with spear=Instrument |
Option 2
they stabbed his eye with hot spits while he slept
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stabbed | nsubj |
| 2 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eye | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stabbed | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 spits | case |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spits | amod |
| 7 | spits | spit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stabbed | obl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 slept | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slept | nsubj |
| 10 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stabbed | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | past | they | his eye | with hot spits | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with spit=Instrument | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | he | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
stabbed his eye with hot spits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eye | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 stabbed | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 spits | case |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spits | amod |
| 6 | spits | spit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 stabbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | past | his eye | with hot spits | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with spit=Instrument |
Option 4
they threw hot coals and stabbed his eye with spits
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coals | amod |
| 4 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stabbed | cc |
| 6 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stabbed | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 spits | case |
| 10 | spits | spit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stabbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | they | hot coals | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stab | past | they not said here | his eye | with spits | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with spit=Instrument |
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