Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

Does the story say they landed in Balsora, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: story, they · What happens: say, land · To what, where: Balsora · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 story	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 landed	nsubj
6	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Balsora	case
8	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 landed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 say	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	land	past	they			Balsora			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in balsora=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

Yeah, they landed at Balsora

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 landed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 landed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 landed	nsubj
4	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Balsora	case
6	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	they			Balsora			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they landed at Baghdad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 landed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 landed	nsubj
4	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Baghdad	case
6	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	they			Baghdad			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they landed at Serendib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 landed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 landed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 landed	nsubj
4	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Serendib	case
6	Serendib	Serendib	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	they			Serendib			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, they landed at Balsora after a long and dangerous voyage across the sea

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 landed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 landed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 landed	nsubj
4	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Balsora	case
6	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	12 voyage	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 voyage	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voyage	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dangerous	cc
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 long	conj
12	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	they			Balsora	after a long voyage	across the sea	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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