Test 6 · ★ · Myths of Greece and Rome, Demeter and Persephone, part 10:…
no way, what flower was the trap?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: way · What happens: flower, be · To what, where: trap
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trap | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 flower | nsubj |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 way | conj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trap | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trap | det |
| 8 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 trap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flower | no way and flower | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | no way and flower | the trap | 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 dazzling flower that gleamed like the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 flower | det |
| 2 | dazzling | dazzling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flower | amod |
| 3 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 gleamed | nsubj |
| 5 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flower | acl:relcl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gleamed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | past | a dazzling flower | like the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A golden narcissus blossom by the stream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 blossom | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blossom | amod |
| 3 | narcissus | narcissus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blossom | compound |
| 4 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 stream | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blossom | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A narcissus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 narcissus | det |
| 2 | narcissus | narcissus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A hyacinth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hyacinth | det |
| 2 | hyacinth | hyacinth | 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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