Test 1 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

Mate, did the dragon really get stuck in that box?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, get · To what, where: dragon

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 box	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 box	det
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate	the dragon					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Eventuality
2	get	present	Mate not said here					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Nah, he wriggled out fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wriggled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wriggled	nsubj
4	wriggled	wriggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 wriggled	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wriggled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wriggle out	past	he					fine, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he got nailed in tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 nailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nailed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nailed	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nailed	aux:pass
5	nailed	nail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 nailed	advmod
7	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nailed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nail	past · passive		he				tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was never really in there, mate, it was a trick

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 there	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 really	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 there	case
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trick	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trick	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trick	det
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mate vocative; there property	tree rules
2	is a	past	mate	a trick					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was sealed in well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sealed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sealed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sealed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sealed	aux:pass
5	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 sealed	compound:prt
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 in	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal in	past · passive		he					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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