Test 10 · ★ · Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas: a field,…

fr, what did the storm cut the corn down with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr, storm · What happens: do, cut down · To what, where: corn

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 484 «Slavonic Myths, Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas: a field, a sale, and two candles» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	nsubj
7	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corn	det
9	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	7 cut	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut down	past	the storm	the corn					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

Like a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 knife	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Like a sickle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 sickle	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sickle	det
3	sickle	sickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Like a sharp knife through the wet stalks of rye and wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 knife	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 stalks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stalks	det
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stalks	amod
8	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knife	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rye	case
10	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stalks	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wheat	cc
12	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rye	conj

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

Option 4

Like a scythe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	3 scythe	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 scythe	det
3	scythe	scythe	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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