Test 13 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece,…
Mid, was Jason's trip a good idea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mid · What happens: be · To what, where: trip
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2076 «Tanglewood Tales, Pomegranate Seeds and The Golden Fleece, part 35: Proserpina returns, then Jason reaches a raging river» 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 | Mid | Mid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mid | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trip | cop |
| 4 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Jason | case |
| 6 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 trip | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mid | Jason's trip | 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
Yes, totally
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 totally | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, Chiron approved of the whole plan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 approved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 approved | nsubj |
| 4 | approved | approve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plan | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plan | amod |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 approved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approve | past | Chiron | of the whole plan | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Not really, he didn't tell Chiron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 tell | advmod |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 tell | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 tell | advmod |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | he | Chiron | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chiron=Recipient |
Option 4
Yes, the gods were on his side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 side | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gods | det |
| 4 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 side | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 side | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gods | his side | tree rules |
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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