Test 9 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

lowkey lit, what were the mice munching on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mice · What happens: lit, be, munch on · To what, where: mice

This is test 9 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	2 lit	advmod
2	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mice	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 mice	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mice	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mice	det
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lit	obl
8	munching	munch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mice	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 munching	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lit	participle			lowkey property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the mice		tree rules
3	munch on	gerund	the mice not said here			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

dried roots and venison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roots	amod
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 venison	cc
4	venison	venison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roots	conj

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

Option 2

fresh corn and squash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 corn	amod
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 squash	cc
4	squash	squash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 corn	conj

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

Option 3

whatever scraps the wolves had left behind after their long hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 scraps	nsubj
2	scraps	scrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 left	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 scraps	ccomp
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 left	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 hunt	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hunt	nmod:poss
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hunt	amod
11	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrap	present	whatever						tree rules
2	leave behind	past · perfect · passive		the wolves			after wolves's long hunt	behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

wild plums and berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plums	amod
2	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 berries	cc
4	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plums	conj

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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