Test 5 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

Did Cadmus just chuck a boulder at it first, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cadmus · What happens: chuck · To what, where: boulder

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Cadmus	aux
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 chuck	advmod
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boulder	det
6	boulder	boulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	obl
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 chuck	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 chuck	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 chuck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	infinitive	Cadmus	a boulder		boulder		first property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boulder=Destination what=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

a spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a heavy stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a sharp spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spear	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spear	amod
3	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a huge rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	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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