Test 13 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…
Why was the Dragon in a right state at the end?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dragon · What happens: be
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 635 «Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a Manticora, then a Hippogriff, and chases the Dragon to the Pebbly Waste» 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=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dragon | det |
| 4 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 state | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 state | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 state | amod |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dragon | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 state | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Dragon in a right state at the end | why property | 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
no tree anywhere to hide under from the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 hide | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hide | mark |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 hide | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | no tree | the sun | anywhere property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from sun=Beneficiary |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
no pond to drink in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 pond | det |
| 2 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 drink | mark |
| 4 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pond | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 drink | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink in | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
no tree to hide under
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hide | mark |
| 4 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tree | acl |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
no tree or rock to hide under at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 rock | cc |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tree | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hide | mark |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 hide | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide under | to-infinitive | no tree or rock | all | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=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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