Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…
ok but who was that queen lady who showed up?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen lady · What happens: be, show up · To what, where: queen lady
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 7 lady | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 lady | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lady | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lady | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lady | mark |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lady | compound |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 showed | nsubj |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lady | acl:relcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 showed | compound:prt |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 lady | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | queen lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show up | past | queen lady | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
Harmonia, a daughter of the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harmonia | Harmonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Harmonia | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a princess of Troy who had come to the city with the soldiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Troy | case |
| 4 | Troy | Troy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | nmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 soldiers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldiers | det |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 city | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | a princess of Troy | the city with the soldiers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location |
Option 3
a sea nymph from Crete
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nymph | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nymph | compound |
| 3 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Crete | case |
| 5 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nymph | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Aphrodite, the sea goddess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aphrodite | aphrodite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 goddess | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goddess | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goddess | compound |
| 5 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Aphrodite | 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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