Test 6 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…
the library was mad, full of books, wasn't it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: library · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: it
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 library | det |
| 2 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mad | cop |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mad | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 books | case |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 books | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 it | cop |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 it | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mad | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the library | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the library not said here | of books | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is a | past | it | 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
Nah, it was a tiny room with only three shelves and a broken chair in the corner
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 room | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 room | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 shelves | case |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 three | advmod |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 shelves | nummod |
| 11 | shelves | shelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 room | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 chair | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 chair | det |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 chair | amod |
| 15 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shelves | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 corner | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 corner | det |
| 18 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chair | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a tiny room | with three shelves and a broken chair in the corner | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Yeah, shelves of gold and silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 shelves | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | shelves | shelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shelves | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 silver | cc |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a whole worldful of books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 worldful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 worldful | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 worldful | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worldful | amod |
| 5 | worldful | worldful | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 books | case |
| 7 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 worldful | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, a whole worldful of books, stacked up to the ceiling on every wall of the room
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 worldful | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 worldful | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 worldful | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worldful | amod |
| 5 | worldful | worldful | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 books | case |
| 7 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 worldful | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stacked | punct |
| 9 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 worldful | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stacked | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ceiling | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ceiling | det |
| 13 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stacked | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 wall | det |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stacked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wall | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stack up | participle | a whole worldful of books not said here | every wall of the room | to the ceiling | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wall=Destination |
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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