Test 12 · ★ · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…
Mate, what was the dragon's whole vibe, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: whole vibe
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 vibe | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 vibe | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 vibe | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 vibe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dragon | case |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 vibe | amod |
| 9 | vibe | vibe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 1 Mate | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mate and the dragon's whole vibe | the dragon's whole vibe | 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
a snake with wings, breathing fire, proper scary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scary | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 wings | case |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 snake | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 breathing | punct |
| 6 | breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 snake | acl |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breathing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 snake | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scary | amod |
| 10 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | gerund | a snake with wings not said here | fire | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
Option 2
a giant wolf with fangs, breathing ice, proper wild
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wolf | amod |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ice | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 fangs | case |
| 5 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wolf | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 breathing | punct |
| 7 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ice | amod |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ice | punct |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wild | amod |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ice | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
a dog with horns, breathing smoke, proper big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 big | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 horns | case |
| 4 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dog | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 smoke | punct |
| 6 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 smoke | amod |
| 7 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horns | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dog | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 big | amod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
a big lizard, scary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lizard | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lizard | amod |
| 3 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scary | punct |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lizard | amod |
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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