Test 7 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…
Is the crowd at Iolchos just chilling or is something proper going on?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crowd · What happens: be, chill, go on · To what, where: crowd, Iolchos, something
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2077 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason carries an old woman across a river and loses a sandal» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 crowd | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crowd | det |
| 3 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Iolchos | case |
| 5 | Iolchos | Iolchos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crowd | nmod |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 chilling | advmod |
| 7 | chilling | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 crowd | acl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 something | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 something | cop |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 chilling | obj |
| 11 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 something | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 going | compound:prt |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 crowd | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the crowd | Iolchos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chill | gerund | the crowd not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | something | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go on | gerund | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
They are cheering for a chariot race today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cheering | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cheering | aux |
| 3 | cheering | cheer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 race | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 race | det |
| 6 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 race | compound |
| 7 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cheering | obl |
| 8 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cheering | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | present · progressive | They | today | for a chariot race | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
They are waiting for a grand festival dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | aux |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dinner | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dinner | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dinner | amod |
| 7 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dinner | compound |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | They | for a grand festival dinner | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They are watching a black bull sacrifice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 watching | aux |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sacrifice | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sacrifice | amod |
| 6 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sacrifice | compound |
| 7 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · progressive | They | a black bull sacrifice | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
They are watching King Pelias make a black bull sacrifice to Neptune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 watching | aux |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pelias | compound |
| 5 | Pelias | Pelias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | obj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watching | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sacrifice | det |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sacrifice | amod |
| 9 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sacrifice | compound |
| 10 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Neptune | case |
| 12 | Neptune | Neptune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sacrifice | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · progressive | They | King Pelias | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | King Pelias not said here | a black bull sacrifice | to Neptune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sacrifice=Product |
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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