Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

Dead funny, what name did Sindbad tell the king?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sindbad · What happens: tell · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 funny	amod
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tell	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	obj
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Sindbad		the king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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

Abdullah the Sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Abdullah	Abdullah	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sailor	det
3	Sailor	Sailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Abdullah	appos

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He told the king he was Sindbad the Sailor from Baghdad

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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Sindbad	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Sindbad	cop
7	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sailor	det
9	Sailor	Sailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sindbad	appos
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Baghdad	case
11	Baghdad	Baghdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	He		the king	Baghdad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
2	is a	past	king	Sindbad					tree rules

Option 3

Sinbad the Merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sinbad	Sinbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Merchant	det
3	Merchant	Merchant	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sinbad	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sindbad the Sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sailor	det
3	Sailor	Sailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sindbad	appos

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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