Test 9 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

What's vellum, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: vellum

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 vellum	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 vellum	cop
3	vellum	vellum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vellum	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 vellum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		vellum and mate					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

a sort of thin paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 paper	case
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paper	amod
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			thin paper					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

calfskin for writing on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	calfskin	calfskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 on	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 writing	case
3	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 calfskin	nmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	root	root

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

Option 3

a fine cloth woven from wool that monks use to bind their books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloth	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloth	amod
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cloth	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 wool	case
6	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 woven	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 use	obj
8	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	nsubj
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cloth	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 bind	mark
11	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 use	advcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 books	nmod:poss
13	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bind	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	weave	participle		a fine cloth not said here	wool	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wool=Trajectory
2	use	present	monks	a fine cloth		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	bind	to-infinitive	monks not said here	monks's books		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient

Option 4

paper made from reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 paper	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 reeds	case
4	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		paper not said here		reeds			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from reed=Material

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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