Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…
so what was the king's gaff like, all lush?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: gaff
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | _ | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 gaff | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gaff | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gaff | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | gaff | gaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 gaff | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lush | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 lush | det |
| 11 | lush | lush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gaff | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 gaff | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king's gaff and all lush | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a city full of desirable stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 city | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stuff | case |
| 5 | desirable | desirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stuff | amod |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a huge city with grand palaces, busy markets and many desirable goods to buy
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 city | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 palaces | case |
| 5 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 palaces | amod |
| 6 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 city | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 markets | punct |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 markets | amod |
| 9 | markets | market | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 palaces | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 goods | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 goods | amod |
| 12 | desirable | desirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 goods | amod |
| 13 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 palaces | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 buy | mark |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 city | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | to-infinitive | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
a busy port with many ships
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 port | det |
| 2 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 port | amod |
| 3 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ships | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ships | amod |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 port | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a city full of desirable stuff, markets, gardens and wide streets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 city | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stuff | case |
| 5 | desirable | desirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stuff | amod |
| 6 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 markets | punct |
| 8 | markets | market | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 city | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gardens | punct |
| 10 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 city | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 streets | cc |
| 12 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 streets | amod |
| 13 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 city | 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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