Test 9 · ★ · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…
so the Dragon just went back to sleep?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: go back, sleep
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dragon | det |
| 3 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the Dragon | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the Dragon not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, it actually stayed awake all week and kept terrorising the village people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | awake | awake | ADV | _ | 5 stayed | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 week | det |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stayed | conj |
| 11 | terrorising | terroris | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 kept | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 people | compound |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 terrorising | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | it | week | actually, awake property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | terroris | gerund | the village people | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, it dozed off again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 dozed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dozed | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dozed | nsubj |
| 4 | dozed | doze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 dozed | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 dozed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doze off | past | it | again | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, it woke up on Saturday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 woke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 woke | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Saturday | case |
| 7 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | it | saturday | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, it crawled back into the book and slept for a hundred years in the cellar
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 crawled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crawled | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crawled | nsubj |
| 4 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 crawled | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 book | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 book | det |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crawled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slept | cc |
| 10 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crawled | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 slept | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cellar | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cellar | det |
| 17 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl back | past | it | the book | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into book=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | the cellar | year | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cellar=Location |
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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