Test 12 · ★ · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…
fam, what does testimonial even mean?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: be, mean
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 testimonial | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 testimonial | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 testimonial | cop |
| 5 | testimonial | testimonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 fam | conj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 mean | advmod |
| 7 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 testimonial | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 fam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fam | testimonial property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | infinitive | fam not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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
a token of thanks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 token | det |
| 2 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 thanks | case |
| 4 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 token | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a formal statement written by the court clerk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 statement | det |
| 2 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 statement | amod |
| 3 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 statement | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 clerk | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clerk | det |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clerk | compound |
| 8 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | a formal statement not said here | by the court clerk | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a kind of letter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 letter | case |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a long speech given at a grand dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 speech | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speech | amod |
| 3 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 speech | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 dinner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dinner | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dinner | amod |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | a long speech not said here | a grand dinner | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at dinner=Asset |
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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