Test 7 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

Bare cool, what was the Rocking Horse scared of?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rocking Horse · What happens: be, scare

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cool	amod
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cool	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 cool	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Horse	det
7	Rocking	Rocking	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Horse	compound
8	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 scared	nsubj
9	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 scared	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cool	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past							tree rules
2	scare	past	the Rocking Horse						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dragons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Dragons and the Manticora who lived in the book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Manticora	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Manticora	det
4	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Dragons	conj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 book	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Dragons and the Manticora			the book			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in book=Location

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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