Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 28: Sindbad outwi…

after the big shipwreck, did anybody else survive with him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anybody · What happens: survive

This is test 9 · ★ 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	after	after	ADP	_	4 shipwreck	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shipwreck	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shipwreck	amod
4	shipwreck	shipwreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 survive	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shipwreck	punct
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 survive	aux
7	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 survive	nsubj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 anybody	advmod
9	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 survive	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past · do-support	anybody				after the big shipwreck	with him = he	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, a few sailors survived on a plank and joined him on the island later

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 survived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 survived	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sailors	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sailors	amod
5	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 survived	nsubj
6	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 plank	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plank	det
9	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 survived	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 joined	cc
11	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 survived	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 joined	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 island	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 island	det
15	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 joined	obl
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 island	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	a few sailors			a plank			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on plank=Location
2	join	past	a few sailors not said here	him = he		the island			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

nah, the whole crew swam to shore but the captain drowned and Sindbad was left alone

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crew	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crew	amod
5	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	nsubj
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 shore	mark
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 drowned	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 captain	det
11	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drowned	nsubj
12	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swam	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 left	cc
14	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 left	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	aux:pass
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 swam	conj
17	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the whole crew	shore		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Trajectory
2	drown	past	the captain			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past · passive		Sindbad	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, his whole crew died and he was left alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 crew	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crew	amod
5	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux:pass
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 died	conj
11	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	his whole crew						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	leave	past · passive		crew				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

nah, the crew stayed on the island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crew	det
4	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	nsubj
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the crew			the island			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location

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