Test 9 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 29: Sindbad float…

Sick, what colour was the king's letter, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, colour · What happens: sick, be · To what, where: letter

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 letter	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 letter	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 letter	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 letter	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sick	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	1 Sick	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	past	what colour	the king's letter					tree rules

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

Blue ink on yellowish skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ink	amod
2	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 skin	case
4	yellowish	yellowish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skin	amod
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ink	nmod

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

Option 2

Written in gold and silver letters on a long roll of red silk cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Written	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 letters	cc
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 letters	compound
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gold	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 roll	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 roll	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 roll	amod
10	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Written	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 cloth	case
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cloth	amod
13	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cloth	compound
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roll	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle				gold and silver letters		on a long roll of red silk cloth	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination
2	roll			red silk cloth					nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Gold ink on red cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ink	compound
2	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ink	nmod

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

Option 4

Blue on white parchment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 parchment	case
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 parchment	amod
4	parchment	parchment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blue	obl

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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