Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…

what did the herbs do to his mates, though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: herbs · What happens: do

This is test 11 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herbs	det
4	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mates	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mates	nmod:poss
8	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	2 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the herbs					to his mates	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

made them sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they					tree rules
2	sleep	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

made them sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they				sick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

made them proper mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they				mad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 4

made them go bald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp
4	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	them = they not said here					bald property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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