Test 3 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 38: the A…
bro, what did the talking tree chop off?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: talking tree · What happens: chop off
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2079 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 38: the Argo gets a talking figure-head and the heroes gather» 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 | 8 chop | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chop | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 chop | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chop | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chop | nsubj |
| 8 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 chop | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 chop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop off | past · do-support | the talking tree | bro vocative | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
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 bud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bud | det |
| 2 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a twig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 twig | det |
| 2 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the trunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trunk | det |
| 2 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 branch | det |
| 2 | branch | branch | 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/2079-pg976-part38/t3/