Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

what did Sindbad do to the lady who got dropped in?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: do, drop in · To what, where: lady

This is test 8 · ★ 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 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lady	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 dropped	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dropped	aux:pass
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lady	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 dropped	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Sindbad					to the lady	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	drop in	past · passive		the lady					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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

hit her hard with a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hit	obj
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 hit	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rock	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	her = she				with a rock; hard property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with rock=Instrument

Option 2

stabbed her with a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 stabbed	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 knife	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stab	past		her = she				with a knife	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with knife=Instrument

Option 3

knocked her out with a heavy bone and dragged her to the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 knocked	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 knocked	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 bone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bone	det
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bone	amod
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knocked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dragged	cc
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 knocked	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dragged	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past		her = she				with a heavy bone	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bone=Instrument
2	drag	past		her = she		the wall			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to wall=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

knocked her out with a bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 knocked	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 knocked	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 bone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bone	det
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock out	past		her = she				with a bone	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bone=Instrument

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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