Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…
how many loaves did they chuck in the pit with the husband?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many loaves, loaves · What happens: do, chuck · To what, where: pit
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loaves | amod |
| 3 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chuck | nsubj |
| 6 | chuck | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pit | det |
| 9 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chuck | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 husband | det |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pit | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | many loaves | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chuck | present | loaves = loaf | the pit with the husband | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in pit=Destination |
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
seven little loaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 loaves | nummod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loaves | amod |
| 3 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a few fresh cakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cakes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cakes | amod |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cakes | amod |
| 4 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
seven small loaves, a big jug of water and some dates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 loaves | nummod |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loaves | amod |
| 3 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 jug | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 jug | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jug | amod |
| 7 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loaves | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jug | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dates | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 dates | det |
| 12 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loaves | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
seven little loaves and a jug of water for the trip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 loaves | nummod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loaves | amod |
| 3 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 jug | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 jug | det |
| 6 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loaves | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jug | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 trip | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trip | det |
| 11 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jug | nmod |
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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