Test 11 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…
did the crowds wave flags and flowers at him, fam?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crowds · What happens: wave · To what, where: flags
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crowds | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crowds | det |
| 3 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wave | nsubj |
| 4 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wave | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flowers | cc |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flags | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fam | punct |
| 11 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wave | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | present | the crowds | flags and flowers | at him = he | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=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
Nah, just some stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stones | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stones | advmod |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 stones | det |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, flags
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 flags | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, loads of flags and scattered flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 loads | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flags | case |
| 5 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loads | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flowers | cc |
| 7 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 8 flowers | amod |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loads | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, they threw stones and shouted rude things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 threw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shouted | cc |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 8 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shouted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | they | stones | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | they not said here | rude things | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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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