Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

Mate, what's a "ben" even mean, is it like a dug?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, ben · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: ben

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dug	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ben	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 ben	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ben	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ben	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ben	punct
7	ben	ben	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 ben	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 mean	advmod
10	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ben	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dug	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dug	nsubj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 dug	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dug	det
16	dug	dug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 dug	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Mate and a ben	a ben		tree rules
2	mean	present	a ben not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Mate and a ben		like a dug	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

A river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A high hill or mountain top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hill	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hill	amod
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 top	cc
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	compound
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hill	conj

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

Option 3

A deep valley by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 valley	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 valley	amod
3	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 valley	nmod

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

Option 4

A hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	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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