Test 14 · ★ · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…
What was the sheep's roof, honestly?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: roof · What happens: be
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» 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 sheep | det |
| 4 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roof | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 sheep | case |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 8 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the sheep's roof | honestly property | tree rules |
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 roof of woven straw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 roof | det |
| 2 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 straw | case |
| 4 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 straw | amod |
| 5 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roof | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a silk tent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tent | det |
| 2 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tent | compound |
| 3 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a silver tent of linen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tent | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tent | amod |
| 3 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 linen | case |
| 5 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tent | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a canopy of cloth of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 canopy | det |
| 2 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 cloth | case |
| 4 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 canopy | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 canopy | 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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