Test 9 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Book of Beasts, part 1: Lionel is…
the tea was peak, with seedy cake and red and gold china, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tea · What happens: be · To what, where: peak
This is test 9 · ★ 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 tea | det |
| 2 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 peak | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 peak | cop |
| 4 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cake | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cake | case |
| 7 | seedy | seedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cake | amod |
| 8 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 peak | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 china | cc |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 china | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gold | cc |
| 12 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 red | conj |
| 13 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cake | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 peak | punct |
| 15 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 peak | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 peak | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the tea | peak | 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
Yeah, proper tasty cake and posh china, plus loads of jam and butter on a silver tray
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cake | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cake | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cake | amod |
| 4 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cake | amod |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 china | cc |
| 7 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 china | amod |
| 8 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cake | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 loads | punct |
| 10 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 11 loads | cc |
| 11 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cake | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 jam | case |
| 13 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loads | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 butter | cc |
| 15 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jam | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 tray | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tray | det |
| 18 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tray | compound |
| 19 | tray | tray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loads | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, it was dry bread and tin mugs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 bread | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bread | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bread | cop |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bread | amod |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mugs | cc |
| 8 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mugs | compound |
| 9 | mugs | mug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bread | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | dry bread and tin mugs | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, proper tasty cake and posh china
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 cake | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cake | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cake | amod |
| 4 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cake | amod |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 china | cc |
| 7 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 china | amod |
| 8 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cake | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, nice cake and plain cups
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cake | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cake | punct |
| 3 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cake | amod |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cups | cc |
| 6 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cups | amod |
| 7 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cake | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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