Test 4 · ★ · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…
was Lionel gutted when the Dragon went?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: gut, go · To what, where: Lionel
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gutted | aux:pass |
| 2 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 went | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dragon | det |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gutted | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | past · passive | Lionel | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the Dragon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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
Yeah, he was properly upset
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 upset | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 upset | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 upset | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 upset | cop |
| 5 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 6 upset | advmod |
| 6 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | properly, upset property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was bawling his eyes out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 bawling | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bawling | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bawling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bawling | aux |
| 5 | bawling | bawl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bawling | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 bawling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bawl out speech: other | past · progressive | he | his eyes | out property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic |
Option 3
Yeah, sort of
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sort | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 sort | fixed |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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