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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

advmodauxnsubjadvmodmarkadvclpunctroothowADVdidAUXtheyPRONevenADVblindADJthatSCONJgiantADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1howhowADVPronType=Int5 blindadvmod
2diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 blindaux
3theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 blindnsubj
4evenevenADV_5 blindadvmod
5blindblindADJDegree=Posrootroot
6thatthatSCONJ_7 giantmark
7giantgiantADJDegree=Pos5 blindadvcl
8??PUNCT_5 blindpunct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

they poked him with spears

nsubjobjcaseoblroottheyPRONpokedVERBhimPRONwithADPspearsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 pokednsubj
2pokedpokeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 pokedobj
4withwithADP_5 spearscase
5spearsspearNOUNNumber=Plur2 pokedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pokepasttheyhim = hewith spearsvn 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

nsubjnmod:possobjcaseamodoblmarknsubjadvclroottheyPRONstabbedVERBhisPRONeyeNOUNwithADPhotADJspitsNOUNwhileSCONJhePRONsleptVERB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 stabbednsubj
2stabbedstabVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 eyenmod:poss
4eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing2 stabbedobj
5withwithADP_7 spitscase
6hothotADJDegree=Pos7 spitsamod
7spitsspitNOUNNumber=Plur2 stabbedobl
8whilewhileSCONJ_10 sleptmark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 sleptnsubj
10sleptsleepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 stabbedadvcl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stabpasttheyhis eyewith hot spitsvn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with spit=Instrument
2sleeppasthevn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

stabbed his eye with hot spits

nmod:possobjcaseamodoblrootstabbedVERBhisPRONeyeNOUNwithADPhotADJspitsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1stabbedstabVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 eyenmod:poss
3eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing1 stabbedobj
4withwithADP_6 spitscase
5hothotADJDegree=Pos6 spitsamod
6spitsspitNOUNNumber=Plur1 stabbedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stabpasthis eyewith hot spitsvn 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

nsubjamodobjccconjnmod:possobjcaseoblroottheyPRONthrewVERBhotADJcoalsNOUNandCCONJstabbedVERBhisPRONeyeNOUNwithADPspitsNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 threwnsubj
2threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hothotADJDegree=Pos4 coalsamod
4coalscoalNOUNNumber=Plur2 threwobj
5andandCCONJ_6 stabbedcc
6stabbedstabVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 threwconj
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 eyenmod:poss
8eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing6 stabbedobj
9withwithADP_10 spitscase
10spitsspitNOUNNumber=Plur6 stabbedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1throwpasttheyhot coalsvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Theme
2stabpastthey not said herehis eyewith spitsvn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with spit=Instrument

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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