Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

so what sank the other rafts for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: sink · To what, where: other rafts

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	3 sank	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rafts	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rafts	amod
6	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sank	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 real	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sank	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past		the other rafts				for real	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent raft=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

giant rocks thrown at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rocks	amod
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rocks	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle		giant rocks not said here				at rocks = rock	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at they=Destination

Option 2

a huge storm and giant rocks thrown from the cliffs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storm	amod
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrown	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rocks	cc
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rocks	amod
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 storm	conj
7	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 cliffs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cliffs	det
10	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle · passive		a huge storm and giant rocks		the cliffs			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from cliff=Initial_Location

Option 3

the giants' heavy stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giants	det
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stones	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 giants	case
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stones	amod
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

giant rocks thrown at them by the other giants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rocks	amod
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rocks	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thrown	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 giants	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giants	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giants	amod
9	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	participle		giant rocks not said here				at rocks = rock; by the other giants	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at they=Destination

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