Test 11 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…
Whose little trunk was spinning the top, then?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little trunk · What happens: spin · To what, where: top
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trunk | amod |
| 3 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spinning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spinning | aux |
| 5 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spinning | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 then | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 spinning | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 spinning | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | past · progressive | little trunk | the top | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent top=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
the dragon's enormous purple claw
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 | 6 claw | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 dragon | case |
| 4 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 claw | amod |
| 5 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 claw | amod |
| 6 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the magician's sneaky little hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 magician | case |
| 4 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | amod |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the elephant's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 elephant | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the Princess's
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Princess | case |
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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