Test 14 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

what did the Sun say was impossible to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: say, be, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	7 impossible	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 impossible	cop
7	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 impossible	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 impossible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Sun		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past		impossible property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Shine on the sea without a rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shine	shine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 sea	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shine	nmod
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 rest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shine	nmod

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

Option 2

Make his daily journey on such rough roads while also carrying the Moon along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 journey	nmod:poss
3	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 journey	amod
4	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 roads	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roads	amod
7	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roads	amod
8	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Make	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 carrying	mark
10	also	also	ADV	_	11 carrying	advmod
11	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Make	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moon	det
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 carrying	obj
14	along	along	ADV	_	11 carrying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	his daily journey	such rough roads		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product
2	carry	gerund	you not said here	the Moon		along property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme
3	journey		his = he				nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Make his daily journey on such rough roads without any rest or help from the stars

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 journey	nmod:poss
3	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 journey	amod
4	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 roads	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roads	amod
7	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roads	amod
8	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Make	obl
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 rest	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 help	cc
13	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 stars	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stars	det
16	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	his daily journey		such rough roads		without any rest or help; from the stars	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset journey=Product from star=Material
2	journey		his = he						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Make his daily journey on such rough roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 journey	nmod:poss
3	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 journey	amod
4	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 roads	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roads	amod
7	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roads	amod
8	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	his daily journey		such rough roads			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product
2	journey		his = he						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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