Test 13 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

what did the ambassadors call the Sun and Moon?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ambassadors · What happens: do, call · To what, where: Sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ambassadors	det
4	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Moon	cc
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Sun	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	present	the ambassadors		the Sun and Moon				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient

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

The Majesties of Heaven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Majesties	det
2	Majesties	majesty	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Heaven	case
4	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Majesties	nmod

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

Option 2

Their Majesties of Dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Majesties	nmod:poss
2	Majesties	majesty	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Dawn	case
4	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Majesties	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Their Majesties of Light, fancy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Majesties	nmod:poss
2	Majesties	majesty	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Light	case
4	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Majesties	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fancy	punct
6	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Majesties	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sun-kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kings	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sun	punct
3	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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