Test 8 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…
Which place did those husbands live in, mate?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: place, husbands · What happens: do, live · To what, where: mate
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 husbands | det |
| 5 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mate | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which place | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | present | that husbands | mate | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mate=Location |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A village on a plain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 village | det |
| 2 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 plain | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plain | det |
| 5 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 village | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A small village on the edge of a dry desert plain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 village | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 village | amod |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 edge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 edge | det |
| 6 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 village | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 plain | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 plain | det |
| 9 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plain | amod |
| 10 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plain | compound |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 edge | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A little village in the middle of a great forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 village | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 village | amod |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 middle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 middle | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 village | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forest | amod |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 middle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A village by a lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 village | det |
| 2 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 village | 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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