Test 2 · ★ · Rotundia, Tom and the Dragon, part 5: Tom feeds a hurt dra…

Wait, what was the dragon even doing by the pillar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dragon · What happens: wait, be, do · To what, where: dragon

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dragon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 dragon	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dragon	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 doing	advmod
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 dragon	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 pillar	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pillar	det
11	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the dragon		tree rules
3	do	gerund	the dragon not said here		by the pillar	vn act-114-1 «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

Was hiding from ships

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hiding	aux
2	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 ships	case
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive				ships			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from ship=Beneficiary

Option 2

Eating buns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	buns	bun	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		buns					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Patient

Option 3

Was eating some grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 eating	aux
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive		some grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Had a busted wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wing	det
3	busted	bust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wing	amod
4	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		a busted wing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	bust	participle							vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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