Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…
what time of day was it when they got to the palace?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: day, they · What happens: be, get
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 it | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 it | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 time | nmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 got | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | day | of it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | they | time | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Midday, sun shining bright
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Midday | punct |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | nsubj |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shining | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | Midday sun | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Evening, sun going down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Evening | punct |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 going | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | gerund | Evening sun | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3
Early morning, all grey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grey | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 grey | det |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Midday, sun shining bright, right over the top of the cliff, dead hot
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Midday | punct |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | nsubj |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shining | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 top | punct |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 top | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shining | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cliff | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cliff | det |
| 13 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hot | punct |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hot | amod |
| 16 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 top | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | Midday sun | the top of the cliff | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=Location |
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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