Test 4 · ★ · Rotundia, Tom and the Dragon, part 5: Tom feeds a hurt dra…

Innit wild, what did the dragon do with them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dragon · What happens: innit, do · To what, where: dragon

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Innit	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Innit	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dragon	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here		wild property	tree rules
2	do	past		the dragon		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Eventuality
3	do	present	the dragon not said here		with them = they	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

Chewed them slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chewed	obj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Chewed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	past		them = they				slowly property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Scoffed the lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lot	det
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scoffed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past		the lot					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Ate some

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Ate	obj

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

Option 4

Gave some away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Gave	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past		some				away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent some=Theme

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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