Test 3 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

lol what did Medea say she could boil old folks into?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Medea · What happens: say, boil · To what, where: old folks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 boil	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 boil	aux
8	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 folks	amod
10	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 boil	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	8 boil	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Medea						tree rules
2	boil	could	Medea	old folks					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent folk=Patient

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

young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

newer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	newer	new	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

younger again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 younger	advmod

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

Option 4

strong once more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 strong	advmod

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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