Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

Innit true the king wanted the story written in gold?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: true king · What happens: want, write · To what, where: story, gold

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 true	compound
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 gold	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 written	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the true king	the story					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot story=Theme
2	write	participle		the story not said here		gold			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=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

Yeah, written in red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 written	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 written	punct
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 red	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle				red			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in red=Destination

Option 2

Yeah, in silver letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 letters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 letters	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 letters	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 letters	compound
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, letters of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 letters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 letters	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	letter			gold					nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he wanted the tale carved in stone on the temple walls of the city

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tale	det
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tale	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 stone	case
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carved	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 walls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
12	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walls	compound
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carved	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the tale					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme
2	carve	participle		the tale not said here		stone		on the temple walls of the city	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination

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