Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

Wicked, who was the first bloke to talk to him when he woke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, talk, wake · To what, where: Wicked first bloke, him

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bloke	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bloke	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 bloke	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bloke	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 bloke	amod
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 talk	mark
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bloke	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talk	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 woke	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 woke	nsubj
14	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the Wicked first bloke		tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive			him = he	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
3	wake	past	he			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

The native who knew Arabic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 native	det
2	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the native	Arabic					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer arabic=Stimulus

Option 2

A guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The boy who swam to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 boy	acl:relcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the boy		boy				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination

Option 4

The king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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