Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldier…

Why did the Dragon go mad at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: go

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1687 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldiers trick the Dragon with the answer to his riddle» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dragon	det
4	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mad	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Dragon					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He was angry about the whip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 whip	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whip	det
6	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					about the whip; angry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Because the answers beat him and he flew off shrieking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 beat	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 answers	det
3	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	nsubj
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 beat	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 flew	compound:prt
10	shrieking	shriek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 flew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	beat	present	the answers	him = he	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
2	fly off	past	he		tree rules
3	shriek	gerund	he not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Because the three soldiers told him the answers out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 soldiers	nummod
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 answers	det
8	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 told	obj
9	out	out	ADV	_	10 loud	advmod
10	loud	loud	ADV	_	5 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the three soldiers	the answers	him = he			loud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient answer=Topic

Option 4

Because the soldiers had tricked him with a riddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 tricked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldiers	det
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tricked	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	aux
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 riddle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 riddle	det
9	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · perfect · passive		the soldiers				with a riddle	tree rules

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