Test 7 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…
Where's that mountain Adam got kicked out to, do you reckon?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, reckon · To what, where: mountain
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 kicked | advmod |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kicked | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 kicked | mark |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kicked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mountain | appos |
| 6 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kicked | aux:pass |
| 7 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 reckon | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 kicked | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 kicked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reckon | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reckon | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 reckon | nsubj |
| 13 | reckon | reckon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 reckon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | mountain | kick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reckon | infinitive · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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 big mountain on Serendib, where Adam was sent after leaving Paradise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountain | amod |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Serendib | case |
| 5 | Serendib | Serendib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mountain | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 sent | advmod |
| 8 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux:pass |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mountain | acl |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 leaving | mark |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sent | advcl |
| 13 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | Adam | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | Paradise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paradise=Theme |
Option 2
The mountain near Baghdad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mountain | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 Baghdad | case |
| 4 | Baghdad | Baghdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mountain | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The tall peak on Serendib
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peak | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 peak | amod |
| 3 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Serendib | case |
| 5 | Serendib | Serendib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 peak | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The big mountain on Serendib
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountain | amod |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Serendib | case |
| 5 | Serendib | Serendib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mountain | nmod |
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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