Test 2 · ★ · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…
lol wait, what was the palace even made of?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, make · To what, where: palace
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 2 wait | discourse |
| 2 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 palace | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 palace | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wait | obl |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 palace | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 made | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | is a | past | the palace | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | participle | the palace not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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
plain river rock stacked with mud and sticks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rock | amod |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rock | compound |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rock | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mud | case |
| 6 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stacked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sticks | cc |
| 8 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mud | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stack | participle | plain river rock not said here | with mud and sticks | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
polished marble, gold, and many other fancy stones brought from far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 marble | amod |
| 2 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gold | punct |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marble | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stones | amod |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stones | amod |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stones | amod |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 marble | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 far | case |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 brought | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bring | participle · passive | polished marble and gold not said here | many other fancy stones | far property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
marble and other fancy stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stone | cc |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stone | amod |
| 4 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stone | amod |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 marble | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
gold and silver tiles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tiles | cc |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tiles | compound |
| 4 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 gold | 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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