Test 7 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

Real talk, what's this shinansha thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: shinansha thing

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1349 «Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage, part 9: Kotei beats the fog and crosses the river in boats made after a spider's leaf» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 thing	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 thing	det
7	shinansha	shinansha	X	_	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Real talk and this shinansha thing	this shinansha thing					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 wagon that marks the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wagon	det
2	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 marks	nsubj
4	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wagon	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	a wagon	the north					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent north=Destination

Option 2

a special carriage with a figure that points south at all times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 carriage	det
2	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carriage	amod
3	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 figure	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 figure	det
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carriage	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 points	nsubj
8	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 carriage	acl:relcl
9	south	south	ADV	_	8 points	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 times	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 times	det
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 points	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	a special carriage with a figure				time	south property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a chariot that points south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chariot	det
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 points	nsubj
4	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 chariot	acl:relcl
5	south	south	ADV	_	4 points	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	a chariot					south property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a cart with a bell on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cart	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 top	case
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bell	nmod

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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