Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 25: Sindbad escap…
did the fish look like a cow or what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish · What happens: look
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 cow | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cow | det |
| 7 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 what | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cow | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | the fish | like a cow | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, a cow, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cow | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cow | det |
| 4 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fr | punct |
| 6 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cow | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, a bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 bird | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, an ox, fr
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 ox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ox | punct |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ox | det |
| 4 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fr | punct |
| 6 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ox | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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