Test 8 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

what was dad sitting on, all fancy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: sit on · To what, where: all

This is test 8 · ★ 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	4 sitting	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	nsubj
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 sitting	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sitting	obj
8	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 all	amod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit on	past · progressive	dad	all					vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent what=Theme all=Destination

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 gilded royal seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seat	det
2	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seat	amod
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seat	amod
4	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gild	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a magnificent throne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 throne	det
2	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 throne	amod
3	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bench	det
2	bench	bench	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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