Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps…
bro what's in the basket she hands him, be honest
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, she · What happens: be, hand · To what, where: basket, him
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2082 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps Jason tame the brazen bulls and sow the dragon's teeth» 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 | 6 basket | nsubj |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 basket | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 basket | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 basket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 basket | det |
| 6 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nsubj |
| 8 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 basket | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hands | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 honest | punct |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 honest | cop |
| 12 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 basket | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bro | the basket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hand | present | she | the basket not said here | him = he | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | infinitive | bro not said here | honest property | 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 bundle of dried herbs wrapped in a cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bundle | det |
| 2 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 herbs | case |
| 4 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 herbs | amod |
| 5 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bundle | nmod |
| 6 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 herbs | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cloth | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cloth | det |
| 9 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | dried herbs not said here | a cloth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination |
Option 2
Silver coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coins | compound |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bronze arrows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrows | compound |
| 2 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Dragon's teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dragon | case |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
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