Test 8 · ★ · Rotundia, Tom and the Dragon, part 5: Tom feeds a hurt dra…

Dead funny, who was too scared to go see it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, go, see · To what, where: it

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dead	conj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 scared	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dead	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scared	advcl
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past		scared property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	infinitive	it		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

All the Rotundian children in the square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 children	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
3	Rotundian	Rotundian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 children	compound
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 square	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 square	det
7	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 children	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The Lord Chief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Chief	det
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Chief	compound
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The little duchesses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duchesses	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duchesses	amod
3	duchesses	duchess	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The big elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elephant	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elephant	amod
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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