Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwi…

so what was the stuff in the cave walls, like real diamonds?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: stuff, cave walls

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 188 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwits the Old Man, grows rich, then is stranded on a cliff island» 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	_	5 stuff	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 stuff	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuff	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stuff	det
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 walls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walls	compound
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stuff	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 diamonds	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 diamonds	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 diamonds	amod
13	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walls	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stuff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the stuff		the cave walls and real diamonds			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

nah, just dull stones and dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 stones	advmod
4	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stones	amod
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dirt	cc
7	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stones	conj

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

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

yep, diamonds, rubies, and crystal, all over the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 diamonds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crystal	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rubies	punct
5	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 diamonds	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crystal	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crystal	cc
8	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walls	punct
10	all	all	ADV	_	13 walls	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 walls	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crystal	obl

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

Option 3

yep, emeralds and silver all over the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 emeralds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 silver	cc
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 emeralds	conj
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 floor	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 emeralds	nmod

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

Option 4

nah, not diamonds, just snake skins and bones scattered all over the walls

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 diamonds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 diamonds	advmod
4	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 skins	punct
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 skins	advmod
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skins	compound
8	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 diamonds	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bones	cc
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 skins	conj
11	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 skins	acl
12	all	all	ADV	_	15 walls	advmod
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 walls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 walls	det
15	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scatter	participle		snake skins and bones not said here		the walls			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over wall=Destination

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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