Test 12 · ★ · Rotundia, Tom and the Dragon, part 5: Tom feeds a hurt dra…
Why'd the lapdog bark so bad?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 bad | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bad | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bark | det |
| 4 | lapdog | lapdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bark | compound |
| 5 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bad | nsubj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 bad | advmod |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 bad | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He saw a ship and the bun
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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bun | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bun | det |
| 7 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ship | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | He | a ship and the bun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |
Option 2
He was on about the postman
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 | 3 on | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 on | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 postman | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 postman | det |
| 6 | postman | postman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 on | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | about the postman; on property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was on about ships and the dragon
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 | 5 ships | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ships | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ships | case |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 ships | case |
| 5 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dragon | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ships | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | ships and the dragon | tree rules |
Option 4
He was on about ships, the dragon and the buns in the square
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 | 5 ships | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ships | cop |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ships | case |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 ships | case |
| 5 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragon | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ships | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 buns | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 buns | det |
| 11 | buns | bun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ships | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 square | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 square | det |
| 14 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buns | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | ships and the dragon and the buns in the square | tree rules |
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