Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

wait, why'd they bounce out of the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: wait, bounce · To what, where: castle

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	6 bounce	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 bounce	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 bounce	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bounce	nsubj
6	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 castle	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bounce	obl
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	bounce	present	they			the castle			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out castle=Trajectory

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

to find the boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boats	det
4	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		the boats					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Topic

Option 2

because the giant had chased them out of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 chased	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chased	aux
5	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chased	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 hall	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · perfect · passive		the giant		the hall			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to wait by their rafts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 wait	mark
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 rafts	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rafts	nmod:poss
5	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	to-infinitive						by their rafts	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by raft=Location

Option 4

to fetch some food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		some food					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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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