Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…
Bet, what did the expedition go looking for?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bet · What happens: go, look
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» 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 | Bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 go | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 expedition | det |
| 6 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 go | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 looking | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · do-support | Bet | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Bet not said here | 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
A woman in a red boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boat | amod |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 woman | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A maiden on a white bull, who had been seen crossing the sea at dawn
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bull | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bull | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bull | amod |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 maiden | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 maiden | acl |
| 12 | crossing | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 seen | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crossing | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 dawn | case |
| 16 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crossing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect · passive | a maiden on a white bull | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cross | gerund | a maiden on a white bull not said here | the sea | dawn | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A maiden on a white bull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bull | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bull | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bull | amod |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 maiden | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A son on a black horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 son | nmod |
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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