Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…

wait, so Sindbad hid in a tent of sticks all night?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Sindbad · What happens: wait, hide · To what, where: tent

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 hid	advmod
4	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tent	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tent	det
8	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sticks	case
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tent	nmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	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	hide	past	Sindbad			a tent of sticks	night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=Location

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, a hut of sticks, too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hut	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hut	det
4	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sticks	case
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hut	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hut	punct
8	too	too	ADV	_	4 hut	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he built a big wall of stones and slept behind it all night long

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wall	amod
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stones	case
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wall	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slept	cc
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	conj
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slept	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl:unmarked
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	he	a big wall of stones					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product
2	sleep	past	he not said here			wall	night	long property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, he slept in a tree and built a fire to keep warm till morning

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slept	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 built	cc
9	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 built	advcl
14	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	xcomp
15	till	till	ADP	_	16 morning	case
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he		a tree			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
2	build	past	he not said here	a fire				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
3	keep	to-infinitive	he not said here			morning	warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, faggots, like a mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 faggots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 faggots	punct
3	faggots	faggot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mouse	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 mouse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faggots	appos

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

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