Test 10 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

What were the cows' ears like, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ears

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» 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	6 ears	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ears	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cows	det
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ears	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 cows	case
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 mate	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ears	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the cows's ears				like 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

proper red, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mate	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mate	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 red	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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