Test 13 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…
fr, what was the mouse yelling when he dashed out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr, mouse · What happens: be, yell, dash out · To what, where: mouse
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mouse | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 mouse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mouse | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mouse | det |
| 6 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 fr | appos |
| 7 | yelling | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mouse | acl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 dashed | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dashed | nsubj |
| 10 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 yelling | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 dashed | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 fr | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fr | the mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yell speech: express | gerund | the mouse not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dash out | past | mouse | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Spirit of the buffalo!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 buffalo | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 buffalo | det |
| 4 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spirit | nmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spirit | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Mercy of the great hunter!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hunter | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunter | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hunter | amod |
| 5 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mercy | nmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mercy | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Run away!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Spirit of the great bull who died on the plain last winter!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bull | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bull | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bull | amod |
| 5 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Spirit | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bull | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 winter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 winter | det |
| 10 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 winter | amod |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 winter | amod |
| 12 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Spirit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the great bull | winter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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