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Test 8 · ★★★ · Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside…

A nature programme talks about «the flora and fauna of the river bank». What is it about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nature programme · What happens: talk, be · To what, where: programme

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows»» of the language 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: A nature programme talks about «the flora and fauna of the river bank».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 programme	det
2	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 programme	compound
3	programme	programme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talks	nsubj
4	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 flora	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 flora	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flora	det
8	flora	flora	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talks	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fauna	cc
10	fauna	fauna	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flora	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 bank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bank	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bank	compound
14	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fauna	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 fauna	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	a nature programme					about the flora and fauna of the river bank	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about flora=Topic

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: What is it about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	about	about	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		programme					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The plants and animals of the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plants	det
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 animals	cc
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plants	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bank	compound
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	nmod

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

Option 2

Two famous Roman sisters who lived there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sisters	nummod
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sisters	amod
3	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sisters	amod
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sisters	acl:relcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Two famous Roman sisters			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The weather and seasons of the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 weather	det
2	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seasons	cc
4	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 weather	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seasons	nmod

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

Option 4

The boats and bridges of the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boats	det
2	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bridges	cc
4	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boats	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bank	compound
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boats	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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