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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'.

nsubjpunctamodpunctcompoundccomppunctccpunctdetamodpunctamodconjpunctpunctrootYouPRONsayVERB'PUNCTwildADJ-PUNCTgooseNOUNchaseNOUN'PUNCTorCCONJ'PUNCTtheDETgreenADJ-PUNCTeyedADJmonsterNOUN'PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs2 saynsubj
2saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3''PUNCT_7 chasepunct
4wildwildADJDegree=Pos7 chaseamod
5--PUNCT_4 wildpunct
6goosegooseNOUNNumber=Sing7 chasecompound
7chasechaseNOUNNumber=Sing2 sayccomp
8''PUNCT_7 chasepunct
9ororCCONJ_15 monstercc
10''PUNCT_15 monsterpunct
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 monsterdet
12greengreenADJDegree=Pos14 eyedamod
13--PUNCT_12 greenpunct
14eyedeyedADJDegree=Pos15 monsteramod
15monstermonsterNOUNNumber=Sing7 chaseconj
16''PUNCT_15 monsterpunct
17..PUNCT_2 saypunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresentYouvn 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?

detnsubjadvmodamodobjadvmodpunctrootWhichDETwriterNOUNfirstADVwroteVERBsuchADJphrasesNOUNdownADV?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhichwhichDETPronType=Int2 writerdet
2writerwriterNOUNNumber=Sing4 wrotensubj
3firstfirstADVNumForm=Word NumType=Ord4 wroteadvmod
4wrotewriteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5suchsuchADJDegree=Pos6 phrasesamod
6phrasesphraseNOUNNumber=Plur4 wroteobj
7downdownADV_4 wroteadvmod
8??PUNCT_4 wrotepunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1write downpastwhich writersuch phrasesdown, first propertyvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Gutenberg

rootGutenbergPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1GutenbergGutenbergPROPNNumber=Singrootroot

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

Option 2

Martin Luther

flatrootMartinPROPNLutherPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MartinMartinPROPNNumber=Singrootroot
2LutherLutherPROPNNumber=Sing1 Martinflat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Shakespeare

rootShakespearePROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ShakespeareShakespearePROPNNumber=Singrootroot

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

Option 4

Suleiman

rootSuleimanPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SuleimanSuleimanPROPNNumber=Singrootroot

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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