Test 3 · ★ · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

Wait, who's the big boss snake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: big boss snake

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snake	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 snake	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snake	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snake	amod
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snake	compound
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the big boss snake					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 · ← Mova's choice

The Vizir of the desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Vizir	det
2	Vizir	Vizir	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 desert	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 desert	det
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Vizir	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The King of the Snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Snakes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Snakes	det
5	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 King	nmod

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

Option 3

The wood-cutters' captain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cutters	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cutters	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wood	punct
4	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 captain	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 cutters	case
6	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Sultan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	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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