Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

Was Circe's chair a proper bling throne or just a plain old stool?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: chair

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chair	cop
2	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chair	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Circe	case
4	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throne	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 throne	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 throne	amod
7	bling	bling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 throne	amod
8	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 stool	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 stool	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stool	det
12	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stool	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stool	amod
14	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throne	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 throne	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Circe's chair					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

Carved oak with silver bits on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 oak	amod
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 bits	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bits	compound
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 oak	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Chased gold with jewels all over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chased	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 jewels	case
4	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chased	obl
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 it	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	participle		gold		gold		with jewels	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gold=Theme over it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Plain old wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wood	amod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wood	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Shiny silver with some gems on top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silver	amod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 gems	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 gems	det
5	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 silver	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 top	case
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gems	nmod

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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