Test 8 · ★ · Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clo…

Dead, which city's a floating one?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dead city · What happens: float, be · To what, where: floating one

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 905 «Picture-Book Without Pictures, Pulcinella, part 2: the clown mourns Columbine» 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 city	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 city	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	which Dead city	a floating one					tree rules

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 ancient city of the drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 city	amod
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 drowned	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drowned	det
6	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 city	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle		the ancient city not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Padua

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Padua	Padua	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the city on the lagoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 lagoon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lagoon	det
5	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 city	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Venice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Venice	Venice	PROPN	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/905-pg27200-part116/t8/