Test 9 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Shinansha, or the South Po…

Kotei's mum saw what in the sky before he was born?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: see, bear · To what, where: sky, Kotei

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Kotei	Kotei	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kotei	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saw	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 born	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 born	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 born	aux:pass
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Kotei's mum			the sky			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	bear	past · passive		Kotei					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 bright bolt of lightning shooting from the North Star into her room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bolt	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bolt	amod
3	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 shooting	case
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shooting	compound
6	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bolt	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 Star	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Star	det
9	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Star	compound
10	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shooting	nmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 room	nmod:poss
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bolt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt		lightning shooting from the North Star			her room			nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent into=place

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a bright sun over the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sun	amod
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountains	det
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sun	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

lightning shooting from the North Star

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shooting	compound
2	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 Star	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Star	det
5	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Star	compound
6	Star	Star	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shooting	nmod

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

Option 4

a bolt of light from the southern hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bolt	det
2	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 light	case
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bolt	nmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
7	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hills	amod
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bolt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt		light			the southern hills			nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent from=place

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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