Test 4 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…
Did the flying horse get well mad at the dragon?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flying horse · What happens: do, fly, get
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 horse | amod |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | ccomp |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 mad | advmod |
| 7 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 dragon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dragon | det |
| 10 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mad | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get | present | the flying horse | mad 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, it went all quiet after the beating
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 quiet | advmod |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 beating | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beating | det |
| 9 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | it | after the beating | quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nah, it actually liked the dragon and went quietly with him to the stable every morning
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 liked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 liked | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 liked | advmod |
| 5 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 liked | conj |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 stable | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stable | det |
| 15 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | obl |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 morning | det |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 liked | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | it | the dragon | morning | actually property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dragon=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | the stable | with dragon; quietly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, the dragon beat it so badly that the horse went silent for the rest of the day
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 beat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beat | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dragon | det |
| 4 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beat | nsubj |
| 5 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beat | obj |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 badly | advmod |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beat | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beat | advcl |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 went | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 rest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rest | det |
| 16 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rest | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past | the dragon | it | badly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | the horse | for the rest of the day; silent property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for rest=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Yeah, it went quiet after that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | it | after that | quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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