Test 6 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…
Who was the girl on the white bull supposed to be?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, suppose · To what, where: girl, white bull
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girl | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bull | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bull | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bull | amod |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod |
| 9 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bull | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 supposed | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the girl | on the white bull | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppose | participle | the white bull not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «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
A goddess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goddess | det |
| 2 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The queen of Phoenicia's cousin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cousin | case |
| 4 | Phoenicia | Phoenicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Phoenicia | case |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queen | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Cadmus's wife, lost at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Cadmus | case |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lost | punct |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wife | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | Cadmus's wife not said here | sea | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at sea=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Europa, Telephassa's missing daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Europa | Europa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 3 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Telephassa | case |
| 5 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Europa | appos |
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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