Test 6 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…
what was the world like while they hid?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: world, they · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: world
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 8 hid | mark |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 hid | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hid | nsubj |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 world | acl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the world | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | they | the world not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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 · ← Mova's choice
Pitch black day and night, total darkness, and everyone was scared to go outside
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | compound |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 night | cc |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 darkness | punct |
| 7 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 darkness | amod |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 scared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 scared | cc |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 scared | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 scared | cop |
| 13 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 scared | advcl |
| 16 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everyone | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | outside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Sort of gloomy most of the time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 most | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 gloomy | case |
| 3 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sort | nmod |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 most | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Pitch black day and night, total darkness everywhere, with people stuck in their homes
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | compound |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 night | cc |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 darkness | punct |
| 7 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 darkness | amod |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 9 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 darkness | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 day | nmod |
| 13 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 homes | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 homes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stuck | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Pitch black day and night, total darkness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | compound |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 night | cc |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 darkness | punct |
| 7 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 darkness | amod |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
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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