Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

yo what did Sindbad knock up to make the king's horse ride way better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: knock up, make, ride · To what, where: horse, way

This is test 2 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 knock	discourse
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 knock	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knock	aux
4	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 knock	nsubj
5	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 knock	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ride	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 horse	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
13	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 knock	parataxis
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ride	obj
15	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 ride	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 knock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock up	past · do-support	Sindbad			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive		the king's horse		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset horse=Product
3	ride	present		way	good property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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

a blanket, quilted and red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 blanket	det
2	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 quilted	punct
4	quilted	quilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 blanket	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 red	cc
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quilted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quilt	participle		a blanket not said here					tree rules

Option 2

a bridle, gold-stitched and fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bridle	det
2	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stitched	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bridle	punct
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stitched	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 gold	punct
6	stitched	stitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fine	cc
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stitched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stitch	participle · passive		a bridle					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a saddle, wadded and gold-stitched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 saddle	det
2	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wadded	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saddle	punct
4	wadded	wad	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stitched	cc
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stitched	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct
8	stitched	stitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wadded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wad	participle	a saddle						vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
2	stitch	participle	a saddle not said here						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a saddle, wadded and gold-stitched, and reins for the king's own horse

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	2 saddle	det
2	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wadded	punct
4	wadded	wad	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saddle	acl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stitched	cc
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stitched	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct
8	stitched	stitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wadded	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 reins	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 reins	cc
11	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saddle	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	17 horse	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 horse	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 king	case
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 horse	amod
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wad	participle		a saddle and reins for the king's own horse not said here					vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
2	stitch	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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