Test 12 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from…

Lol, what would people call Stan if he went home empty?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people, Stan · What happens: call, go · To what, where: Stan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1771 «Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from a hundred children» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 call	obj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 call	advcl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	would	people	Stan					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme stan=Result
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past	Stan					empty, home 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

Stan who's gone as weak as a dragon and lost all the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gone	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 dragon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weak	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 gold	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gold	det
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Stan		gone property	tree rules
2	be		Stan not said here		as a dragon	tree rules
3	lose	past	Stan not said here	all gold		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stan who's gone as weak as a dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gone	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 dragon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Stan					gone property	tree rules
2	be		Stan not said here					as a dragon	tree rules

Option 3

Stan who's gone as tired as a donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gone	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 donkey	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 donkey	det
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Stan					as a donkey; gone, tired property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Stan the weakling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weakling	det
3	weakling	weakling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stan	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1771-pg641-part22/t12/