Test 14 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

what did the nephew say the sword looked like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nephew, sword · What happens: say, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 2045 «A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine nearly kills Theseus before his father recognizes him» 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	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nephew	det
4	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sword	det
7	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	8 looked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the nephew						tree rules
2	look	past	the sword						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

sharp, bright and terrible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bright	punct
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 sharp	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 terrible	cc
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 sharp	conj

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

Option 2

long and bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bright	cc
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 long	conj

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

Option 3

shining and very deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 deadly	cc
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 deadly	advmod
4	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 shining	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

sharp and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cold	cc
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 sharp	conj

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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