Test 2 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…
Lol, who was actually to blame, according to Lionel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, accord
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 blame | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 blame | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 blame | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blame | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 blame | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 blame | mark |
| 7 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lionel | punct |
| 9 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Lionel | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 according | fixed |
| 11 | Lionel | Lionel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 blame | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 blame | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | accord Lionel; actually, blame property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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
his own disobedience and the Chancellor's silly plan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 disobedience | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 disobedience | amod |
| 3 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 plan | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Chancellor | det |
| 6 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 plan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Chancellor | case |
| 8 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plan | amod |
| 9 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disobedience | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey | his = he | nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 2 | plan | the Chancellor | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
his own disobedience
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 disobedience | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 disobedience | amod |
| 3 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey | his = he | nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
the Dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dragon | det |
| 2 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his own horrible disobedience and sneaky lies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 disobedience | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 disobedience | amod |
| 3 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 disobedience | amod |
| 4 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lies | cc |
| 6 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lies | amod |
| 7 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disobedience | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey | his = he | nom disobedience «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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