Test 9 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Minotaur, part 4: Medea's poisoned wine…

what was he holding, like a king's stick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: hold

This is test 9 · ★ 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 holding	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 holding	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 holding	nsubj
4	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stick	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stick	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holding	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 holding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · progressive	he					like a king's stick	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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 golden orb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a long golden staff topped with a carved eagle and jewels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 staff	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 staff	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 staff	amod
4	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	topped	top	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 staff	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 eagle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eagle	det
8	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 eagle	amod
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 topped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 jewels	cc
11	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eagle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	top	participle		a long golden staff not said here				with a carved eagle and jewels	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with eagle=Theme
2	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a royal staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a scepter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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