Test 7 · ★ · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

Which animal did Corva say was lazy, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	Corva	Corva	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lazy	cop
7	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	7 lazy	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	which animal						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						lazy 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

The old grey stallion who guards the stables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stallion	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stallion	amod
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stallion	amod
4	stallion	stallion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 guards	nsubj
6	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stallion	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stables	det
8	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 guards	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present	the old grey stallion	the stables					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Corva

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Corva	Corva	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The foal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 foal	det
2	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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