Test 11 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…
Bro, what even is a nymph, is it like a fairy?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, nymph · What happens: be · To what, where: nymph
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fairy | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nymph | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 nymph | nsubj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 nymph | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 nymph | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nymph | det |
| 7 | nymph | nymph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fairy | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fairy | nsubj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 fairy | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fairy | det |
| 13 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 fairy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bro and a nymph | a nymph | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | nymph | like a fairy; Bro and a nymph vocative | 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
A small spirit of the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spirit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A wild beast of the marsh lands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beast | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beast | amod |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lands | det |
| 6 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lands | compound |
| 7 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A young spirit of the woods and water who lives in rivers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woods | det |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spirit | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 water | cc |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woods | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lives | nsubj |
| 10 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 water | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 rivers | case |
| 12 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | water | rivers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A young spirit of the woods and water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spirit | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spirit | amod |
| 3 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woods | det |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spirit | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 water | cc |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woods | 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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