Test 6 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

what was on the baby's forehead, like a moon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: forehead

This is test 6 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 forehead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forehead	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 forehead	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forehead	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 baby	case
7	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 moon	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 moon	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moon	det
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forehead	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 forehead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the baby's forehead and a moon			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

a cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cross	det
2	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a small birthmark shaped like a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 birthmark	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birthmark	amod
3	birthmark	birthmark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 birthmark	acl
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	participle		a small birthmark not said here				like a bird	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

a crescent of golden light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crescent	det
2	crescent	crescent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 light	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crescent	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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