Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

real talk, was that bull head flying far?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real talk · What happens: fly

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flying	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flying	aux
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 flying	mark
6	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	compound
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flying	compound
8	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 flying	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 flying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · progressive	real talk					far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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

six yards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	nummod
2	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

six yards away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	nummod
2	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 away	obl:unmarked
3	away	away	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

twelve yards off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	yards	yards	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 twelve	nmod:unmarked
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 twelve	compound:prt

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

Option 4

nine yards away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 yards	nummod
2	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 away	obl:unmarked
3	away	away	ADV	_	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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