Test 8 · ★ · Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza f…

lowkey, what was the thing the old guy was leaning on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, old guy · What happens: be, lean on · To what, where: thing

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1714 «Balkan Folk-Tales, Iwanich and Militza, part 38: Militza flies off, Iwanich lies to his father, and the beasts close in» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guy	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 guy	amod
9	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaning	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 leaning	aux
11	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 thing	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 leaning	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lowkey	the thing					tree rules
2	lean on	past · progressive	the old guy						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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

a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stick	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a broken spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spear	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spear	amod
3	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a crooked staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 staff	det
2	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 staff	amod
3	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the bent handle of an old wooden plough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 handle	det
2	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 handle	amod
3	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 plough	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plough	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plough	amod
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plough	amod
8	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handle	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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