Test 12 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…
was the path easy for them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 path | det |
| 3 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 easy | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 easy | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | for them = they; the path obl:unmarked; easy property | tree rules |
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
yes, very flat ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 ground | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 flat | advmod |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ground | amod |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
no, smooth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 smooth | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nope, rocks and mud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 3 rocks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mud | cc |
| 5 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rocks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nope, steep hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 hills | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hills | amod |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2059-pg976-part18/t12/