Test 7 · ★ · Rotundia, Tom and the Dragon, part 5: Tom feeds a hurt dra…

Proper sad, what happened to Tom's prize?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 sad	advmod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sad	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 prize	case
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 prize	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Tom	case
9	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past						to Tom's prize	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 dragon ate it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj

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

Option 2

Tom lost it outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Tom	it				outside property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

The dragon swallowed it whole when Tom threw the buns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dragon	det
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallowed	nsubj
3	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallowed	obj
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swallowed	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 threw	advmod
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 threw	nsubj
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swallowed	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 buns	det
10	buns	bun	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	the dragon	it				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	throw	past	Tom	the buns					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bun=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Schoolmaster dropped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Schoolmaster	det
2	Schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the Schoolmaster	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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