Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…
fr, what did the voice say she was for Cadmus?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 fr | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Cadmus | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Cadmus | cop |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Cadmus | case |
| 11 | Cadmus | Cadmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 say | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | fr | the voice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | fr | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | fr | for Cadmus | 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
sister, cousin, and servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cousin | punct |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sister | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 servant | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 servant | cc |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sister | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
sister, brothers, friend, and mom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 sister | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sister | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mom | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mom | cc |
| 8 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sister | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
sister and brothers, and a guide through the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 brothers | cc |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 sister | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 guide | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 guide | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guide | det |
| 7 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sister | appos |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 hills | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hills | det |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 guide | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
sister, brothers, friend, nurse, and mom, who would guard the whole city
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 sister | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sister | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nurse | punct |
| 7 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sister | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mom | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mom | cc |
| 10 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 sister | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 guard | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 guard | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 guard | aux |
| 14 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 sister | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 city | amod |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guard | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | would | sister and brothers and friend and nurse and mom | the whole city | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Beneficiary |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2061-pg976-part20/t4/