Test 1 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

Bruv, how did Sindbad stop himself getting squished in that dark tunnel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: stop, get, squish · To what, where: Sindbad, dark tunnel

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 189 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad floats out of a dark underground river and is welcomed in Serendib» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stop	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stop	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
5	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 stop	obj
8	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
9	squished	squish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 getting	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 tunnel	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 tunnel	det
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tunnel	amod
13	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squished	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past · do-support	Sindbad	Sindbad		Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	get	gerund	Sindbad not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	squish	participle	Sindbad not said here		that dark tunnel		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in tunnel=Trajectory

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

He lay flat on his bales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flat	flat	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 bales	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bales	nmod:poss
6	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	He			his bales		flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bale=Location

Option 2

He held onto the rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	5 rope	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rope	det
5	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	He			the rope			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He hid below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	below	below	ADV	_	2 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He					below property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He ducked down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ducked	nsubj
2	ducked	duck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 ducked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	duck down	past	He						vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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