Test 5 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…
so what did the queens tie over her eyes, no cap?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queens · What happens: do, tie · To what, where: eyes
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queens | det |
| 5 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tie | nsubj |
| 6 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tie | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cap | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 cap | det |
| 12 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | tie | present | the queens | her eyes no cap | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 silk ribbon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ribbon | det |
| 2 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ribbon | compound |
| 3 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the thick red cloth from the palace banquet table
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloth | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloth | amod |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloth | amod |
| 4 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 banquet | compound |
| 8 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 table | compound |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cloth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a handkerchief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 handkerchief | det |
| 2 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a long embroidered silk sash from the royal wardrobe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sash | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sash | amod |
| 3 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sash | amod |
| 4 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sash | compound |
| 5 | sash | sash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 wardrobe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wardrobe | det |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wardrobe | amod |
| 9 | wardrobe | wardrobe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sash | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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