Test 5 · ★ · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

Bet, which season was it when the brooks dried up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bet · What happens: be, dry up · To what, where: Bet, brooks

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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	Bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 it	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 it	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 season	det
4	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 it	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 it	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 it	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brooks	det
9	brooks	brook	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 when	nsubj
10	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 brooks	acl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 dried	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 when	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bet	Bet					tree rules
2	dry up	participle		the brooks not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the wet spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spring	det
2	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spring	amod
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the hot summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 summer	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summer	amod
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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