Test 6 · ★ · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…

why'd he sneak to the library at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: sneak · To what, where: library

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sneak	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sneak	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sneak	nsubj
4	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 library	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 library	det
7	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sneak	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sneak	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sneak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak	would	he			the library	night		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to library=Destination

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

Because he wanted to steal the book and sell it to the Chancellor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 steal	mark
5	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steal	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sell	cc
9	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 steal	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sell	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Chancellor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Chancellor	det
13	Chancellor	Chancellor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the book		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme
3	sell	infinitive	he not said here	book	the Chancellor	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to chancellor=Recipient

Option 2

To find out about the Dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 find	compound:prt
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 Dragon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dragon	det
6	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	to-infinitive						about the Dragon	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dragon=Topic

Option 3

To borrow a book for school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 borrow	mark
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrow	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	to-infinitive		a book				for school	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To have another look at the book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 look	det
4	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 book	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive		another look		the book			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

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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