Test 7 · ★ · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…
bet, which fish said people change scales two or three times a day?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bet, people · What happens: say, change · To what, where: scales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fish | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bet | conj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 change | nsubj |
| 7 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 8 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 change | obj |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 times | nummod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 three | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 two | conj |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 scales | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | bet and which fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | change | present | people | scales two times a day | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the whiting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whiting | det |
| 2 | whiting | whiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
carp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the perch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 perch | det |
| 2 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | fish | 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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