Test 11 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

what did the cow drink from?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: cow drink

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2059 «A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows a brindled cow until it lies down and he chooses a home» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	compound
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	2 did	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the cow drink					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Eventuality

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 river by the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 river	nmod

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

Option 2

a wide silver river winding through the green valley near the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 river	det
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 river	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 river	compound
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	winding	wind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 river	acl
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 valley	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 valley	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 valley	amod
9	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 winding	obl
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 winding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wind	gerund	a wide silver river not said here			the green valley		near the hills	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through valley=Source near hill=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a brook across the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 brook	det
2	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 path	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 path	det
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brook	nmod

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

Option 4

a shallow brook that flowed across the rocky path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 brook	det
2	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brook	amod
3	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 flowed	nsubj
5	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brook	acl:relcl
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
8	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 path	amod
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	past	a shallow brook			the rocky path			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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