Test 12 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…
Ye know the bit where they're lions, right? What was their mood?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ye, they · What happens: know, be · To what, where: bit, lions, mood
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» 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
Sentence 1: Ye know the bit where they're lions, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 lions | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lions | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lions | cop |
| 8 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bit | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 10 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 2 know | discourse |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Ye | the bit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | they | lions | 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.
Sentence 2: What was their mood?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mood | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mood | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mood | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mood | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lions's mood | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
they roared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 roared | nsubj |
| 2 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | past | they | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
roaring with wild golden eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 roaring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | gerund | with wild golden eyes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with eye=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
fierce
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
snarling with red-eyed glare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snarling | snarl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 glare | case |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyed | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 red | punct |
| 5 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 glare | amod |
| 6 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 snarling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snarl | gerund | with eyed glare | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1067-pg2892-part35/t12/