Test 9 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 18: Cadmus follows…

why'd the companions get so hyped?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: hype · To what, where: companions

This is test 9 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hyped	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 hyped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 companions	det
4	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hyped	nsubj:pass
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hyped	aux:pass
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 hyped	advmod
7	hyped	hype	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hyped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype	present · passive		the companions					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

they loved the cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	the cow					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they wanted Cadmus as king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 king	case
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	Cadmus				as king	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cadmus=Theme as king=Attribute

Option 3

they were bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					bored property	tree rules

Option 4

they wanted a big feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 feast	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feast	amod
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	a big feast					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feast=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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