Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins ba…
the purple bird, what was he really, no cap?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purple bird · What happens: be · To what, where: cap
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2068 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 27: Ulysses wins back his men from the swine and sees the sea nymphs» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cap | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 cap | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cap | cop |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cap | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 cap | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cap | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 cap | det |
| 11 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | appos |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 bird | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the purple bird | no cap | 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 · ← Mova's choice
a wise king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the sea god
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 god | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 god | compound |
| 3 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
an ancient king of Latium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Latium | case |
| 5 | Latium | Latium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
king picus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picus | compound |
| 2 | picus | picus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2068-pg976-part27/t5/