Test 3 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

Wicked, which animals had burrows as big as railway tunnels?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wicked animals · What happens: have · To what, where: burrows

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 tunnels	case
10	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tunnels	compound
11	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 big	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	which Wicked animals	burrows				big property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burrow=Patient

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 moles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moles	det
2	moles	mole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mice	det
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The rabbits, who lived under the hills near the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rabbits	det
2	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the rabbits			the hills		near the sea	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under hill=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rabbits	det
2	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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