Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

so the riders on that island, were they riding with no bridle, like proper wild?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: riders · What happens: ride

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 186 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becomes rich on a strange island, then is buried alive with his dead wife and survives by killing newcomers.» 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	so	so	ADV	_	10 riding	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 riders	det
3	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 riding	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 island	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 island	det
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 riders	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 riders	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 riding	aux
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 riding	nsubj
10	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bridle	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 bridle	det
13	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 riding	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wild	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 wild	case
16	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wild	amod
17	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 riding	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 riding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · progressive	the riders on that island					with no bridle	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, just bridles and some old straps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 bridles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 bridles	advmod
4	bridles	bridle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 straps	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 straps	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 straps	amod
8	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bridles	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, no bridle and no stirrups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bridle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bridle	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 bridle	det
4	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stirrups	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 stirrups	det
7	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bridle	conj

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

Option 3

yeah, no saddle and no reins at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saddle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saddle	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 saddle	det
4	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reins	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 reins	det
7	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saddle	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 reins	nmod

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

Option 4

yeah, all tack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tack	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tack	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tack	det
4	tack	tack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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