Test 8 · Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation
You say 'wild-goose chase' or 'the green-eyed monster'. Which writer first wrote such phrases down?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, writer · What happens: say, write down · To what, where: such phrases · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 of lesson 25 «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» of the history 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
Sentence 1: You say 'wild-goose chase' or 'the green-eyed monster'.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 chase | punct |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chase | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wild | punct |
| 6 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chase | compound |
| 7 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 chase | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 monster | cc |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 monster | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monster | det |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyed | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 green | punct |
| 14 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 monster | amod |
| 15 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chase | conj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 monster | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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.
Sentence 2: Which writer first wrote such phrases down?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 writer | det |
| 2 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 wrote | advmod |
| 4 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 phrases | amod |
| 6 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wrote | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 wrote | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrote | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | past | which writer | such phrases | down, first property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Gutenberg
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gutenberg | Gutenberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Martin Luther
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Luther | Luther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Martin | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Shakespeare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Suleiman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suleiman | Suleiman | 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.
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