Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…

yo, did the snake literally swallow his bro up the tree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, swallow · To what, where: snake, bro

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 185 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escapes the snake, is rescued, gets his goods back, and meets cruel islanders» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swallow	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	literally	literally	ADV	_	7 swallow	advmod
7	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bro	nmod:poss
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallow	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallow	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 swallow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the snake					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Eventuality
2	swallow	present		snake's bro				up the tree; literally property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=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

yeah, he chewed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chewed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chewed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chewed	nsubj
4	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chewed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	past	he	it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, whole, no chew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 whole	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chew	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 chew	det
6	chew	chew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whole	conj

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

Option 3

nah, he hid up top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 hid	compound:prt
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide up	past	he	top					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, it sat on the tree and waited for hours before leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 waited	cc
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 hours	case
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 waited	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 leaving	mark
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 waited	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	it	the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
2	wait	past			hour	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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