Test 8 · Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs
Horus is shown with a bird's head. Which bird?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: show · To what, where: Horus
This is test 8 of lesson 5 «Ancient Egypt: the Nile and the pharaohs» 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: Horus is shown with a bird's head.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horus | horus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shown | aux:pass |
| 3 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 bird | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shown | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | Horus | with a bird's head | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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 bird?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 bird | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A chicken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chicken | det |
| 2 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A night owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 owl | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owl | compound |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A green parrot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parrot | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parrot | amod |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A falcon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 falcon | det |
| 2 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | 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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