Test 8 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…
Real life: which came much later than the spindle whorl?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: come
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 94 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 life | parataxis |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 later | advmod |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 came | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 whorl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 whorl | det |
| 10 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whorl | compound |
| 11 | whorl | whorl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 later | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Real life | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 spindle, about five thousand years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spindle | det |
| 2 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 years | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 thousand | advmod |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thousand | compound |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spindle | conj |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 years | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The wheel, about two thousand years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wheel | det |
| 2 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 years | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 thousand | advmod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 thousand | compound |
| 6 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wheel | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 years | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The needle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 needle | det |
| 2 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The spinning-wheel, about a thousand years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wheel | det |
| 2 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheel | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 spinning | punct |
| 4 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 thousand | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thousand | det |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wheel | parataxis |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 years | advmod |
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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