Test 7 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…
Lionel reckoned he was dreaming, so he bit his tongue, didn't he?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lionel · What happens: reckon, dream, bite, not do · To what, where: tongue
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dreaming | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreaming | aux |
| 5 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 reckoned | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bit | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 bit | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bit | nsubj |
| 9 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reckoned | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bit | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reckoned | parataxis |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 did | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reckoned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | Lionel | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dream | past · progressive | Lionel | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bite | past | Lionel | Lionel's tongue | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not do | past | Lionel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Yeah, to check he was not dreaming, because the news seemed too wonderful to be true
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 check | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 check | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 check | mark |
| 4 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dreaming | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dreaming | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 dreaming | advmod |
| 8 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 check | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seemed | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 seemed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 news | det |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 check | parataxis |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 wonderful | advmod |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 true | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 true | cop |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wonderful | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not dream | past · progressive | he | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | the news | wonderful property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | the news not said here | true property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, he was sleepy and tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sleepy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sleepy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleepy | cop |
| 5 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tired | cc |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sleepy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | sleepy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, to check he was not dreaming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 check | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 check | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 check | mark |
| 4 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dreaming | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dreaming | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 dreaming | advmod |
| 8 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 check | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not dream | past · progressive | he | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, to see if it hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 hurt | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hurt | nsubj |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | hurt a condition, not said to happen | past | it | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
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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