Test 4 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

what were the gobby old women munching, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old women · What happens: be, munch · To what, where: old women

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» 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 women	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 women	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 women	det
4	gobby	gobby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 women	amod
6	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	munching	munch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 women	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	7 munching	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 women	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old women					tree rules
2	munch	gerund	the old women not said here						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

bread and cold beef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beef	cc
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beef	amod
4	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bread	conj

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

Option 2

apples and meat-pies with honey and cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pies	cc
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pies	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 meat	punct
5	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 apples	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 honey	case
7	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 apples	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cream	cc
9	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 honey	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

apples and meat-pies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pies	cc
3	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pies	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 meat	punct
5	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 apples	conj

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

Option 4

apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	apples	apple	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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