Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…
what was Eurylochus's gut feeling about it all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gut · What happens: feel
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 feeling | obj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 feeling | aux |
| 3 | Eurylochus | Eurylochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gut | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Eurylochus | case |
| 5 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feeling | nsubj |
| 6 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feeling | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 it | det |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · progressive | Eurylochus's gut | about it | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme about it=Location |
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
That they were in a dream, dead dodgy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dream | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dream | det |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dream | punct |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dodgy | amod |
| 9 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dream | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | That | a dream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | That not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
Dodgy, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mate | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dodgy | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
That the bird was a bad omen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 omen | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 omen | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 omen | det |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 omen | amod |
| 7 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that bird | a bad omen | tree rules |
Option 4
Bad vibes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 vibes | amod |
| 2 | vibes | vibe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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