Test 3 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

wait, who was tagging along behind the cow?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, tag along

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tagging	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 tagging	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tagging	aux
5	tagging	tag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 tagging	advmod
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 cow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tagging	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tag along	past · progressive						behind the cow; along property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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 group of strangers who had joined the march

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 group	det
2	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 strangers	case
4	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 group	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 joined	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 joined	aux
7	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 strangers	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 march	det
9	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 joined	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	past · perfect	strangers	the march					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent march=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a band of soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 band	det
2	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 soldiers	case
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 band	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

some random strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 strangers	det
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 strangers	amod
3	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

some hungry farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 farmers	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 farmers	amod
3	farmers	farmer	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.

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