Test 8 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

Ngl, what was going on with them golden tents?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: go on · To what, where: golden tents

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	obl
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tents	amod
10	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	Ngl	golden tents				with them = they	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

White with golden stripes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 stripes	case
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stripes	amod
4	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 White	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Golden with silver flags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 flags	case
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flags	compound
4	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Golden	nmod

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

Option 3

Red with silver fringes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 fringes	case
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fringes	compound
4	fringes	fringe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Red	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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