Test 5 · ★ · Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz…

which drums are we even talking about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: drums · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1201 «Persian Tales, Prince Tahmasp and the Riddle of Mihr-afruz, part 2: Tahmasp rides to the riddle city and loses his head, and his brother follows him» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 drums	det
2	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talking	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	cop
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 talking	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 talking	advmod
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	6 talking	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which drums					talk property	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

Two silver drums in a blue tent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 drums	nummod
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drums	amod
3	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 tent	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tent	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tent	amod
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drums	nmod

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

Option 2

Two small drums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 drums	nummod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drums	amod
3	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two jewelled drums in a crimson tent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 jewelled	nsubj
2	jewelled	jewell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jewelled	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 tent	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tent	det
6	crimson	crimson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tent	compound
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jewelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jewell	past	Two	drums		a crimson tent			tree rules

Option 4

Two brass gongs in a striped tent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 gongs	nummod
2	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gongs	compound
3	gongs	gong	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 tent	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tent	det
6	striped	striped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tent	amod
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gongs	nmod

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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