Test 6 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…
Mate, what's the stone bit on the mountain about?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: stone bit, mountain
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 bit | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bit | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | compound |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | nmod |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mate and the stone bit | the stone bit | the mountain | 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 · ✓ the right answer
the stones mock and jeer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stones | det |
| 2 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mock | compound |
| 3 | mock | mock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 jeer | cc |
| 5 | jeer | jeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mock | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the stones are the spirits of men who looked back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stones | det |
| 2 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spirits | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spirits | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spirits | det |
| 5 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spirits | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 men | acl:relcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the stones | the spirits | of men | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look back | past | men | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
they are haunted ghosts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 haunted | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 haunted | aux:pass |
| 3 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 haunted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt | present · passive | they | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer ghost=Result |
Option 4
the rocks sing a song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rocks | det |
| 2 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 song | det |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the rocks | a song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
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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