Test 6 · ★★★ · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★
★★★ Your little cousin draws an ancient Olympic winner biting a gold medal. Best fix?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ★, ancient Olympic winner · What happens: draw, bite · To what, where: ancient Olympic winner, gold medal
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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: ★★★ Your little cousin draws an ancient Olympic winner biting a gold medal.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 draws | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 6 cousin | case |
| 4 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cousin | amod |
| 6 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 7 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 winner | det |
| 9 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 winner | amod |
| 10 | Olympic | olympic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 winner | amod |
| 11 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draws | obj |
| 12 | biting | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 winner | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 medal | det |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 medal | compound |
| 15 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 biting | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 draws | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | ★ ★ Your little cousin | a ancient Olympic winner | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bite | gerund | a ancient Olympic winner not said here | a gold medal | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medal=Patient |
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: Best fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 fix | amod |
| 2 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 fix | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Swap the medal for an olive crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swap | swap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 medal | det |
| 3 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swap | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 crown | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crown | det |
| 6 | olive | olive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crown | amod |
| 7 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swap | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | imperative | you not said here | the medal | for a olive crown | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent medal=Theme for crown=Co-Theme |
Option 2
Add a podium and a flag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 podium | det |
| 3 | podium | podium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Add | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flag | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flag | det |
| 6 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 podium | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a podium and a flag | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent podium=Patient |
Option 3
Swap it for a silver medal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swap | swap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Swap | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 medal | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 medal | det |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 medal | compound |
| 6 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swap | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | imperative | you not said here | it | for a silver medal | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for medal=Co-Theme |
Option 4
Nothing; the drawing is right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 right | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 drawing | det |
| 4 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 right | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 right | cop |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the drawing | right property | tree rules |
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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