Test 4 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

wait, what held up the broken pillar?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, hold up, break · To what, where: broken pillar

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 held	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pillar	det
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pillar	amod
8	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold up	past		the broken pillar	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pillar=Theme
3	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Giant dragon tails, pretty wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tails	amod
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tails	compound
3	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wild	punct
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 wild	advmod
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tails	amod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Stone pillars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pillars	compound
2	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Legs of a giant tortoise, wild right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wild	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 tortoise	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tortoise	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tortoise	amod
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Legs	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wild	punct
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	right	right	ADV	_	7 wild	advmod

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

Option 4

Huge bronze pillars from the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pillars	amod
2	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pillars	compound
3	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pillars	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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