Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her bro…

is the Dragon kinda dangerous, like proper dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1679 «Fairy Book, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers but is condemned to burn» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dragon	det
3	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dangerous	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 dangerous	case
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 dangerous	advmod
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dangerous	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Dragon					dangerous, kinda property	tree rules
2	be		the Dragon not said here					properly property	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

yeah, it burns whole villages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 burns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burns	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burns	nsubj
4	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 villages	amod
6	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	it	whole villages					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent village=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it eats men and beasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beasts	cc
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 men	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	it	men and beasts					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it's massive and eats every man and beast it finds in the forest

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 massive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 massive	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 massive	cop
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eats	cc
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 massive	conj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beast	cc
11	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finds	nsubj
13	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			massive property	tree rules
2	eat	present		every man and beast			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	find	present	beast	every man and beast not said here	the forest		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic

Option 4

yeah, it breathes fire and smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 breathes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 breathes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 breathes	nsubj
4	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breathes	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smoke	cc
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fire	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	it	fire and smoke					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

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