Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…
the dragon in the first part swallowed the king, what a wild ending, right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: swallow · To what, where: king
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1614 «Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin borrows a tongue and saves a book from fire» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dragon | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swallowed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 part | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 part | amod |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dragon | nmod |
| 7 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swallowed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ending | punct |
| 11 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 14 ending | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ending | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ending | amod |
| 14 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swallowed | punct |
| 16 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 swallowed | discourse |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 swallowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | the dragon in the first part | the king and what wild ending | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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.
The options
Option 1
the king lived happily ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 3 lived | advmod |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 lived | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the king | ever | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the king vanished in the jaws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 jaws | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jaws | det |
| 6 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vanished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the king | the jaws | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
the king vanished inside the dragon's jaws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 jaws | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dragon | case |
| 8 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vanished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the king | the dragon's jaws | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the king vanished in the jaws and never returned again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vanished | nsubj |
| 3 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 jaws | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jaws | det |
| 6 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 vanished | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 returned | cc |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 returned | advmod |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vanished | conj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 returned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the king | the jaws | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not return | participle | the king not said here | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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