Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps…

proper scary bit: what do the bulls actually grab onto, like which bits

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bulls · What happens: do, grab · To what, where: proper scary bit, bits

This is test 7 · ★ 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	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
2	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grab	obl:unmarked
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grab	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bulls	det
8	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grab	nsubj
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 grab	advmod
10	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	onto	onto	ADP	_	15 bits	case
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bits	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	15 bits	det
15	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the bulls not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	grab	present	the bulls	proper scary bit		which bits		actually property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Legs and necks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 necks	cc
3	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Legs	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Horn and tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tail	cc
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Horn	conj

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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