Test 3 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad end…

so the elephants kept killing people, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: elephants · What happens: keep, kill · To what, where: people

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 191 «Arabian Nights, The Little Hunchback, part 31: Sindbad ends his last voyage, and a hunchback dies at supper» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elephants	det
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 killing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the elephants						tree rules
2	kill	gerund	the elephants not said here	people					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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

yeah, loads of slaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 slaves	case
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loads	nmod

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

Option 2

nah, just the horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 horses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 horses	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horses	det
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

yeah, loads of slaves and merchants too, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 slaves	case
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loads	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 merchants	cc
7	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slaves	conj
8	too	too	ADV	_	5 slaves	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	conj

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

Option 4

yeah, lots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 lots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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