Test 10 · ★ · Rotundia, Tom and the Dragon, part 5: Tom feeds a hurt dra…

Sick, what did Tom reckon about losing the prize?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Tom · What happens: sick, reckon, lose · To what, where: prize

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 637 «Rotundia, Tom and the Dragon, part 5: Tom feeds a hurt dragon and the prize is eaten» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sick	conj
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 losing	mark
8	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reckon	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prize	det
10	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 losing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	reckon	past · do-support	Tom		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
3	lose	gerund	Tom not said here	the prize	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality

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

He thought losing it might be a good thing after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 thought	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thing	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 thing	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losing	ccomp
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 thing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lose	gerund	He not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	might	it	a good thing	after all	tree rules

Option 2

He felt quite happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 happy	advmod
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He					happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Maybe it's for the best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	6 best	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 best	expl
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 best	cop
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 best	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 best	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good, maybe property	tree rules

Option 4

He reckoned the Schoolmaster had dropped it on purpose today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Schoolmaster	det
4	Schoolmaster	Schoolmaster	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dropped	aux
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 reckoned	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dropped	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obl
10	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	He				today		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past · perfect	the Schoolmaster	it		purpose			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on purpose=Destination

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