Test 14 · ★ · Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies,…

gutted, what did Atropos use to cut the thread?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Atropos · What happens: gut, use, cut · To what, where: thread

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 523 «Greek Myths, Night and Her Children, part 29: the Furies, Fates, Nemesis and the cave of Sleep, with their homes and jobs» 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	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 use	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
5	Atropos	Atropos	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 gutted	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cut	mark
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thread	det
10	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	use	past · do-support	Atropos		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	cut	to-infinitive	Atropos not said here	the thread	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thread=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

a sickle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sickle	det
2	sickle	sickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

awl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	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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