Test 14 · ★ · Old Tales, Virgilius, part 65: Virgilius frees a spirit, g…
what did Virgilius bring back from Toledo for his mum?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Virgilius · What happens: bring back · To what, where: Toledo
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1814 «Old Tales, Virgilius, part 65: Virgilius frees a spirit, gets the magic books, and faces his foes» 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 bring | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | Virgilius | Virgilius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Toledo | case |
| 7 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 mum | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mum | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past · do-support | Virgilius | Toledo | for Virgilius's mum | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent what=Theme from toledo=Initial_Location |
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 white horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Four pack-horses full of treasure and a white palfrey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 horses | nummod |
| 2 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horses | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 pack | punct |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horses | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 treasure | case |
| 7 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 palfrey | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 palfrey | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palfrey | amod |
| 11 | palfrey | palfrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horses | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Four pack-horses full of spices and a black stallion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 horses | nummod |
| 2 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horses | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 pack | punct |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 horses | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spices | case |
| 7 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stallion | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stallion | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stallion | amod |
| 11 | stallion | stallion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horses | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Two carts of silk and an old grey mule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 carts | nummod |
| 2 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 silk | case |
| 4 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carts | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mule | cc |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mule | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mule | amod |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mule | amod |
| 9 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carts | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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