Test 6 · ★ · Book of Beasts, The Red Dragon, part 3: Lionel summons a M…
Wot did it scoff all night long?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wot · What happens: scoff
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Wot | Wot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 scoff | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scoff | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scoff | nsubj |
| 4 | scoff | scoff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scoff | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 scoff | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 scoff | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoff | past · do-support | Wot | night | long property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer
the pussy-cats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cats | det |
| 2 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cats | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 pussy | punct |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the old pigeons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pigeons | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pigeons | amod |
| 3 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
all the pussy-cats in the whole town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 cats | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cats | det |
| 3 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cats | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 pussy | punct |
| 5 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cats | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the pussy-cats and loads of little birds too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cats | det |
| 2 | pussy | pussy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cats | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 pussy | punct |
| 4 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 loads | cc |
| 6 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cats | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 birds | amod |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 loads | nmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 cats | advmod |
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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