Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

what did Sindbad reckon he heard near him at the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: reckon, hear · To what, where: end

This is test 10 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
3	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	ccomp
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Sindbad						tree rules
2	hear	past	Sindbad				at the end	near him = he	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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

someone whispering nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 someone	acl
3	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	2 whispering	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund						nearby property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a wolf growling softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 growling	nsubj
3	growling	growl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	3 growling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	gerund	a wolf					softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

something breathing loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 something	acl
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 breathing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	gerund						loudly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

something breathing loudly, like a huge beast lying just beside him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 something	acl
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 breathing	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beast	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 beast	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beast	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 beast	amod
8	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathing	obl
9	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 beast	acl
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 him	advmod
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	gerund						like a huge beast; loudly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	gerund	a huge beast not said here					beside him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location

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