Test 2 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10:…

wait, how many black horses pulled that chariot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many black horses · What happens: wait, pull · To what, where: chariot

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 504 «Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10: Demeter, grief-stricken, searches for her stolen daughter and learns that Zeus allowed it.» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pulled	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 pulled	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horses	amod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 chariot	det
9	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	past	many black horses	that chariot					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme

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

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

Eight black horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 horses	nummod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horses	amod
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Twelve winged steeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 winged	nsubj
2	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	steeds	steed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 winged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wing	past	Twelve	steeds					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme steed=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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