Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…

what was the island like, dude?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: island · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2061 «Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the five dragon-born warriors to build a city, finds a magic palace, and meets Harmonia» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 island	det
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 dude	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dude	punct
7	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 island	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the island like dude						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 · ✓ the right answer

green and pleasant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pleasant	cc
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 green	conj

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

Option 2

rocky and grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 grey	cc
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 rocky	conj

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

Option 3

dry and barren

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 barren	cc
3	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dry	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

flat and sandy, with a few dry trees and no water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sandy	cc
3	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 flat	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 trees	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 trees	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trees	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	conj

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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