Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…
lol, the captain sold stuff for a dead guy named Sindbad?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: sell, name · To what, where: dead guy
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 stuff | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lol | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 captain | det |
| 4 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuff | nsubj |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stuff | amod |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 guy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 guy | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 guy | amod |
| 10 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuff | nmod |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 guy | acl |
| 12 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuff | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | participle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | name | participle | a dead guy not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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
nope, it was his brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 6 brother | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brother | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | his brother | tree rules |
Option 2
yeah, the goods of a sailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 goods | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goods | det |
| 4 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sailor | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sailor | det |
| 7 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goods | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, a dead pirate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 pirate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pirate | det |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pirate | amod |
| 5 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, and it was Sindbad himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 Sindbad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sindbad | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Sindbad | cc |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Sindbad | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Sindbad | cop |
| 6 | Sindbad | Sindbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 6 Sindbad | nmod:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | Sindbad | Sindbad nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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