Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits th…
wait, was the dragon's club really that heavy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: club
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | _ | 7 club | punct |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 club | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 club | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dragon | case |
| 7 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wait | obl |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 heavy | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 heavy | nsubj |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 club | amod |
| 11 | ? | ? | 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 | the dragon's club | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, even Stan couldn't lift it off the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 lift | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 Stan | advmod |
| 4 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lift | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lift | advmod |
| 7 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lift | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lift | could | Stan | it | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme off ground=Destination |
Option 2
nope, Stan swung it around like a stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 swung | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swung | obj |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 4 swung | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 stick | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stick | det |
| 9 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing around | past | Stan | it | like a stick; around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
yeah, but the dragon could lift it fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 lift | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lift | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 lift | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dragon | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lift | aux |
| 7 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lift | obj |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lift | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | could | the dragon | it | fine property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
nah, it was light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 light | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 light | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 light | cop |
| 5 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | light property | tree rules |
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