Test 14 · ★ · Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan ca…

Mate, what even is a reptile?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: reptile

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1333 «Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan catches a mouse that eats his wheat, and a bishop reveals the mice are his enemy's wife» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reptile	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reptile	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 reptile	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reptile	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 reptile	det
7	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and a reptile	a reptile					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 small lizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A small scaly animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 animal	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animal	amod
3	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animal	amod
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A creeping little creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 creature	det
2	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 creature	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	gerund							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A slimy frog-like beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beast	det
2	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beast	amod
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 frog	punct
5	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beast	amod
6	beast	beast	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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