Test 4 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

Bruv, that dragon was mental, so what was its skin like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: skin

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 534 «Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Cadmus follows a heifer, kills a dragon and sows its teeth» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mental	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mental	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mental	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mental	cop
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 skin	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 skin	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 skin	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 skin	cop
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 skin	nmod:poss
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mental	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	12 skin	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bruv					mental property	tree rules
2	is a	past		dragon's skin					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 · ✓ the right answer

tough black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 black	amod
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

like armour of iron and leather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	2 armour	case
2	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 iron	case
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 armour	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leather	cc
6	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 iron	conj

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

Option 3

thick brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brown	amod
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

hard and covered in bronze plates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 covered	cc
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 hard	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 plates	case
5	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plates	compound
6	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle						in bronze plates	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in plate=Theme

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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