Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes…
ok so what's the Talking Image, is it like a robot or what
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Talking Image · What happens: be · To what, where: it
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2084 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes the Golden Fleece with Medea's magic and sails away» 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 what | advmod |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Image | det |
| 6 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Image | compound |
| 7 | Image | Image | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 what | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 it | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 robot | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 robot | det |
| 13 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 what | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 what | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 what | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Talking Image | like a robot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | 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
a robot, yeah
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 robot | det |
| 2 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 robot | punct |
| 4 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 robot | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
it's a magic ship thing that talks and shouts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ship | compound |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thing | compound |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 talks | nsubj |
| 8 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shouts | cc |
| 10 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 talks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a ship thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | a ship thing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | present | a ship thing not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a magic bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a magic ship that sails by itself, bro
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | compound |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sails | nsubj |
| 5 | sails | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ship | acl:relcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 itself | case |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 sails | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bro | punct |
| 9 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ship | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | present | a magic ship and bro | by itself = it | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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