Test 8 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

ayy, what did the moon look like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moon · What happens: look · To what, where: ayy

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ayy	ayy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 look	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ayy	parataxis
8	like	like	ADP	_	7 look	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ayy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the moon	ayy					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

a bright round silver plate hanging low over the river bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plate	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plate	amod
3	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plate	amod
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plate	compound
5	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 plate	acl
7	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hanging	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bottom	compound
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	a bright round silver plate not said here			the river bottom		low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over bottom=Location

Option 2

a thin golden hoop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hoop	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hoop	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hoop	amod
4	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a pale silver ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
2	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ring	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	compound
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a skinny silver thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thread	det
2	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thread	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thread	compound
4	thread	thread	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.

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