Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood, The Dragon's Teeth, part 20: Cadmus sets the f…
wait, who's Ulysses supposed to be?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, suppose, be
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 supposed | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 supposed | aux |
| 5 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 wait | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 be | mark |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 supposed | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 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 | suppose | present · passive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | be | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «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
a prince from Crete
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Crete | case |
| 4 | Crete | Crete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a king who ruled the sea and sank many ships at Troy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ruled | nsubj |
| 4 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 king | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ruled | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ruled | cc |
| 8 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ships | amod |
| 10 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sank | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Troy | case |
| 12 | Troy | Troy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sank | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | a king | the sea | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sink | past | a king | many ships | Troy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ship=Patient |
Option 3
a poet who sang of Troy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 poet | det |
| 2 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 poet | acl:relcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Troy | case |
| 6 | Troy | Troy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | a poet | of Troy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a king who fought at Troy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Troy | case |
| 6 | Troy | Troy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | a king | Troy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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/t7/