Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits th…
wait, why was Stan so chill about the moon thing?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: Stan
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1770 «Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits the dragon and his mother» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Stan | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 Stan | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Stan | cop |
| 5 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 chill | advmod |
| 7 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 wait | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 thing | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thing | compound |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chill | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Stan | 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
cause he really thought the moon was close
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 close | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 cause | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 close | cop |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | he | the moon | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot moon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | cause | close property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
cause the dragon was scared of the moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 cause | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 moon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | imperative | you not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the dragon | of the moon; scared property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
cause he was just messing with the dragon, bruh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 messing | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 messing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 messing | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 messing | advmod |
| 5 | messing | mess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 messing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 messing | punct |
| 10 | bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 5 messing | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mess | past · progressive | cause | with the dragon | tree rules |
Option 4
no clue, bruh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 clue | det |
| 2 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 clue | punct |
| 4 | bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 2 clue | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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