Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…
What are the people whispering about Telephassa?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: be, whisper
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 people | acl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Telephassa | case |
| 7 | Telephassa | Telephassa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 whispering | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | the people not said here | about Telephassa | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about telephassa=Topic |
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
She's been crying all day long
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crying | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 crying | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 crying | aux |
| 4 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crying | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 crying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present · progressive | She | day | long property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
She's not in her right mind and should be taken back to the city
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mind | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mind | amod |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mind | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 taken | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | She | her right mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take back | should · passive | She not said here | to the city result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to city=Result |
Option 3
She's sick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sick | cop |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | sick property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She's not in her right mind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mind | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mind | amod |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | She | her right mind | tree rules |
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