Test 13 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

why did the king's men not hurry Sindbad's wife's burial, did they?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: men, wife · What happens: not hurry, do, bury · To what, where: burial

This is test 13 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hurry	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hurry	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurry	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hurry	advmod
8	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Sindbad	case
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burial	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 wife	case
13	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurry	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hurry	parataxis
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	nsubj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 hurry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not hurry	past · do-support	the king's men	Sindbad's wife's burial	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burial=Agent
2	do	past	men = man		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bury		Sindbad's wife		nom burial «event transitive»: poss=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

no, slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 slowly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they hurried over the task

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurried	nsubj
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 task	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 task	det
5	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurry	past	they			the task			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over task=Trajectory

Option 3

they went slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they					slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they were quite slow to act

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slow	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 act	mark
6	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					slow property	tree rules
2	act	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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