Test 6 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

fr, what was the cow's coat like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: be · To what, where: coat

This is test 6 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 coat	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 coat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 coat	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coat	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cow	case
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	appos
9	like	like	ADP	_	8 coat	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fr	the cow's coat					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

striped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	striped	stripe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stripe	participle							tree rules

Option 2

grey with brown marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 marks	case
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 marks	amod
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 grey	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

brindled, like a tiger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tiger	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 tiger	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tiger	det
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 brindled	obl

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

Option 4

spotted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	participle							vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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