Test 10 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…
Real life: who was Solomon, according to the Bible?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real life · What happens: be, accord · To what, where: Solomon
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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 | _ | 6 Solomon | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Solomon | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Solomon | cop |
| 6 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 life | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bible | punct |
| 8 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Bible | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 according | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bible | det |
| 11 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Solomon | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Real life | Solomon and the Bible | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
A prophet of the desert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prophet | det |
| 2 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 desert | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 desert | det |
| 5 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prophet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A famous Djinn who was the son of an Animal from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Djinn | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Djinn | amod |
| 3 | Djinn | Djinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 son | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 son | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Animal | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Animal | det |
| 10 | Animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Animal | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a famous Djinn | the son | of a Animal from the sea | tree rules |
Option 3
A king of Sheba, Yemen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Sheba | case |
| 4 | Sheba | Sheba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 king | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yemen | punct |
| 6 | Yemen | Yemen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sheba | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A wise king of Israel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Israel | case |
| 5 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
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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