Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Muffette, the dragon's dinner and the prince's…
Were the monsters proper scary at the entrance?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: monsters
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1182 «Fairy Book, Muffette, the dragon's dinner and the prince's sword: the princess is saved from a monster» of the books 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 monsters | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monsters | det |
| 3 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scary | nsubj |
| 4 | proper | prop | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 scary | advmod |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 entrance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 entrance | det |
| 8 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scary | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 scary | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the monsters | tree rules |
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.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, bats, owls and crows went mental
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bats | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bats | punct |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 owls | punct |
| 5 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bats | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crows | cc |
| 7 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bats | conj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | bats and owls and crows | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
nah, bats, owls and crows were proper mental but the king just walked past them
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 10 mental | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mental | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 owls | punct |
| 5 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bats | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crows | cc |
| 7 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bats | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mental | cop |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mental | amod |
| 10 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mental | conj |
| 16 | past | past | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bats and owls and crows | mental property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | the king | past bats = bat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory |
Option 3
nah, bats, owls and crows were chill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 owls | punct |
| 5 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bats | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crows | cc |
| 7 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bats | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chill | cop |
| 9 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bats and owls and crows | chill property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, bats, owls and crows went mental and attacked the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 bats | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bats | punct |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 owls | punct |
| 5 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bats | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crows | cc |
| 7 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bats | conj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 went | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 attacked | cc |
| 11 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attacked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | bats and owls and crows | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attack | past | bats and owls and crows not said here | the king | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient |
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