Test 7 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

What plant did Moti swing about like a weapon, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plant · What happens: swing, innit

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 plant	det
2	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swing	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swing	aux
4	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 swing	nsubj
5	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 swing	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 weapon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 weapon	det
9	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 swing	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	past · do-support	what plant					like a weapon; about property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	innit	infinitive							tree rules

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

A big cactus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cactus	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cactus	amod
3	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A thorny bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bush	det
2	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bush	amod
3	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A tall castor-oil plant near the road, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
3	castor	castor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 castor	punct
5	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	compound
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A castor-oil plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plant	det
2	castor	castor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oil	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 castor	punct
4	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	compound
5	plant	plant	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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