Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely o…

was the dragon spout broke or sus or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon spout · What happens: be, break · To what, where: dragon spout, sus

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 298 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, part 25: a lonely old man and a gift» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spout	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spout	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spout	compound
4	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 sus	cc
7	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 broke	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the dragon spout					tree rules
2	break	past	the dragon spout	sus					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sus=Patient

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

Nah, it just dripped on the lilies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dripped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dripped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dripped	advmod
5	dripped	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 lilies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lilies	det
8	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drip	past	it			the lilies			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 2

Yeah it's broke, the dragon's head fell off into the lake and the apes laughed

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 broke	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	cop
4	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dragon	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	advcl
11	off	off	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 lake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lake	det
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 laughed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 apes	det
17	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 laughed	nsubj
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		broke property	tree rules
2	fall off	past	the dragon's head	the lake	off property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	laugh	past	the apes			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It leaked from its belly, cos of a hole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaked	nsubj
2	leaked	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 belly	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 belly	nmod:poss
5	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cos	punct
7	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belly	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hole	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hole	det
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cos	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leak	past	It			its belly and cos of a hole			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from belly=Source

Option 4

Yeah, it squirted out the mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 squirted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 squirted	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 squirted	nsubj
4	squirted	squirt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 squirted	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouth	det
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squirted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squirt out	past	it	the mouth					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme

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