Test 3 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…
no cap, who were the sus glowing eyes coming from?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, glowing eyes · What happens: glow, be, come · To what, where: glowing eyes
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 eyes | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eyes | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eyes | det |
| 7 | sus | sus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glowing | compound |
| 8 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cap | appos |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 eyes | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 coming | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | no cap | the glowing eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | the glowing eyes not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 low ground by the river where the cottonwoods grow thick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ground | det |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ground | amod |
| 3 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 grow | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cottonwoods | det |
| 9 | cottonwoods | cottonwood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grow | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the low ground | by the river; thick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the river bottom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bottom | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bottom | compound |
| 3 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the tall grass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grass | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grass | amod |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the far prairie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prairie | det |
| 2 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prairie | amod |
| 3 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1272-pg338-part9/t3/