Test 8 · ★ · Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cadmus Founds Thebes: Ca…

Mad, how many armed blokes were still standing at the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mad many armed blokes · What happens: stand · To what, where: end

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blokes	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blokes	amod
5	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blokes	amod
6	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 standing	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 standing	aux
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 standing	advmod
9	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 standing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 standing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	Mad many armed blokes				at the end; still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location

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

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

not a single one of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 one	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

just the two eldest ones left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	5 ones	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ones	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ones	nummod
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 ones	amod
5	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ones	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		the two eldest ones not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	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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