Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 41: Medea helps…
who taught him to plough, was it the centaur, the one with the horse body
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: teach, plough, be · To what, where: him, centaur
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 taught | nsubj |
| 2 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 taught | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 plough | mark |
| 5 | plough | plough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 taught | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 centaur | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 centaur | cop |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 centaur | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 centaur | det |
| 10 | centaur | centaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taught | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 centaur | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 body | compound |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | plough | to-infinitive | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | it | the centaur | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Chiron
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Orpheus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orpheus | Orpheus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The wise old centaur Chiron in the mountain cave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 centaur | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 centaur | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 centaur | amod |
| 4 | centaur | centaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Chiron | Chiron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 centaur | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cave | compound |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 centaur | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The centaur who lived in the cave on the mountain with his students
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 centaur | det |
| 2 | centaur | centaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 centaur | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cave | det |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 students | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 students | nmod:poss |
| 13 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the centaur | the cave | on the mountain; with centaur's students | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
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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