Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps…

what's the plough like, was it new and shiny or proper old and rusty

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plough · What happens: be · To what, where: plough

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 plough	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plough	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plough	det
4	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 new	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	4 plough	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 plough	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 new	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 new	nsubj
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shiny	cc
11	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 new	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 old	cc
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 old	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 new	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rusty	cc
16	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 new	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the plough		tree rules
2	is	past	the plough		new property	tree rules
3	be		the plough not said here			tree rules
4	be		the plough not said here			tree rules
5	be		the plough not said here			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

Bright and new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 new	cc
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bright	conj

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

Option 2

New

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Old and rusty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rusty	cc
3	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Old	conj

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

Option 4

Shiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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