Test 7 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, Stan Bolovan: the dragon flees from…
What were the kids yelling, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids · What happens: be, yell · To what, where: kids
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 kids | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kids | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kids | det |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | yelling | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kids | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 yelling | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kids | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the kids | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | yell speech: express | gerund | the kids not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Give us dragon's flesh, we want dragon's flesh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dragon | case |
| 5 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 dragon | case |
| 11 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | dragon's flesh | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient flesh=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | present | we | dragon's flesh | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flesh=Theme |
Option 2
Give us dragon's bread, we want dragon's cake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bread | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dragon | case |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cake | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 dragon | case |
| 11 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | dragon's bread | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient bread=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | present | we | dragon's cake | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cake=Theme |
Option 3
Give us dragon's flesh, we want dragon's flesh and we want it cooked
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 dragon | case |
| 5 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 dragon | case |
| 11 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 want | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 want | obj |
| 16 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 want | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | dragon's flesh | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient flesh=Theme | |||
| 2 | want | present | we | dragon's flesh | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flesh=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | present | we | flesh | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cook not said to happen | participle | flesh not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Food, food, food
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 food | punct |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Food | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 food | punct |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Food | conj |
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.
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