Test 4 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the p…
Yo, that host was kinda sus, right? What was he holding at midnight?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: host, he · What happens: be, hold
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1836 «Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne» 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
Sentence 1: Yo, that host was kinda sus, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 7 sus | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 host | det |
| 4 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sus | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sus | cop |
| 6 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 7 sus | advmod |
| 7 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sus | punct |
| 9 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 sus | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that host | kinda, suspect 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.
Sentence 2: What was he holding at midnight?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 holding | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 holding | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 holding | nsubj |
| 4 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 midnight | case |
| 6 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holding | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 holding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · progressive | he | midnight | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A spear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spear | det |
| 2 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A key
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 key | det |
| 2 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Oil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | 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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