Test 10 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…

Nurse was dead strict about the cake, wasn't she?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Nurse, she · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 633 «The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is fetched from the nursery and made King» 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	Nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strict	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strict	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strict	amod
4	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 cake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cake	det
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strict	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 strict	punct
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strict	parataxis
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 she	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 strict	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nurse					about the cake; strict property	tree rules
2	be	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, two helps of anything, max

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 helps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 helps	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 anything	case
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 helps	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 max	punct
8	max	max	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anything	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	two					of anything	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, just one slice each, max

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 slice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slice	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 slice	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 slice	nummod
5	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 slice	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 max	punct
8	max	max	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slice	conj

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

Option 3

Yeah, one slice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slice	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 slice	nummod
4	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, she let him have seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	have	infinitive	him = he not said here				second		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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